etc-shadow

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Mon Feb 23 05:36:12 UTC 2015


On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:23:45AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Curiously, Anaconda calls authconfig to create the key, and the resulting
> shadow entry contains a 16 character salt. Whereas passwd uses an 8
> character salt.

Huh, that is curious. I assume we really want to be using the 16-char
salt everywhere -- bug against passwd, I guess.


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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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