Changeset bbffefa5

Timestamp:

02/24/2012 03:59:05 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

f411b49

Parents:

f6f5b67

Message:

Fix shadow command explanation

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@9509 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/security/shadow.xml (modified) (1 diff)

postlfs/security/shadow.xml

@@ -144 +144 @@
     <application>Man-DB</application> cannot format them properly.</para>
 
-    <para><command>sed -i -e 's@#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES@ENCRYPT_METHOD MD5@'
+    <para><command>sed -i -e 's@#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES@ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512'
     -e 's@/var/spool/mail@/var/mail@' etc/login.defs</command>:
     Instead of using the default 'crypt' method, this command modifies the
-    installation to use the more secure 'MD5' method of password encryption,
+    installation to use the more secure 'SHA512' method of hashing passwords,
     which also allows passwords longer than eight characters. It also changes
     the obsolete <filename class="directory">/var/spool/mail</filename>