<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I meant “what default makes the most sense for the passwd command line application?”<div class="">It was crypt which is deprecated. Should it be BSD’s MD5? One of the SHA2 based algorithms? Or should it produce an error if no algorithm is selected?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pauli<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jan 2020, at 12:28 am, Kurt Roeckx <<a href="mailto:kurt@roeckx.be" class="">kurt@roeckx.be</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 10:47:04AM +1000, Dr Paul Dale wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Could the people who work with distros confirm this default choice or suggest what they use please?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I'm not sure what you're asking, but crypt() has moved on from<br class="">using DES like 20 years ago, see crypt(5).<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Kurt<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>