etc-shadow

[Chris Murphy]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at 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.

-- 
Chris Murphy