md5 and setting up a serial console

[Michael Cronenworth]

Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 1. is there an updated tuturial on getting a serial console working in f17?

F17 uses GRUB2. Find any GRUB2 docs for serial terminals online or at
your terminal:
$ info grub2
/Serial[ENTER]

> 2. since that 2007 tutorial used grub, and fedora 17 uses grub2 I
> wonder if there´s also a need to specify a hashed password in a grub2
> conf file, and if there are options to use a hashing algorithm
> different than md5

I believe GRUB2 uses SHA512. You can even pass a salt.