22 Feb
2015
22 Feb
'15
11:43 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
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.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195110
I've also mentioned it on security@ list.
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Chris Murphy