why still using md5 in shadow file?

J dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 00:27:07 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:30, Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> FIXME if i'm wrong, but why are the passwords stored in md5?
>
> Isn't there a better/more secure solution to store the local users
> passwords?

Ummm... they're not.  sha512, IIRC.




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