Tips and tricks: Choosing the password hashing algorithm for /etc/shadow during installation

This is a new feature that has been requested in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line. The supported algorithms are DES, MD5, and SHA-256/512. They will be available after the upcoming updates releases as well as in Rawhide. The new algorithms will be configurable via Kickstart only. Here is the correct code.DESauthconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=descryptrootpw [...]

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