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password hashing

edited Oct 4, 2012 6:39AM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 9 commentsAnswered ✓
Hello, I'm having an issue with my password hashing. In /etc/shadow all the passwords hashes start with $1$. The security people want me to change it so the password hash starts with $5$ or $6$. So this is what I did to fix this.
I changed CRYPT_DEFAULT for 1 to 6
[CODE] CRYPT_DEFAULT=6[/CODE]When I create a new account, the account uses the new password hashing method, but when I change an existing accounts password it still uses the old method. I'm thinking that I need to restart something but I don't know what.

Any help would be great.

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