http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq Every answer asks a more beautiful question. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-upgrading-password-hashing/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-upgrading-password-hashing/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:11:36 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=5736 The default algorithm for storing password hashes in /etc/shadow is MD5. I was told to use SHA-512 hashing algorithm. How do I set password hashing using the SHA-256 and SHA-512 under CentOS or Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.4?]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-upgrading-password-hashing/feed/ 10