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| author | Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> | 2021-11-07 15:18:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> | 2021-11-07 15:18:49 +0100 |
| commit | 749c1780621163ca5108f164861324bafa9e0ae8 (patch) | |
| tree | 51001872624a692018c45bf39276df94b603fb19 /man/man8/chpasswd.8 | |
| parent | d906ecd3b652d95af6ffb974a2f6669501bb9496 (diff) | |
| download | shadow-749c1780621163ca5108f164861324bafa9e0ae8.tar.gz | |
New upstream version 4.9upstream/4.9
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/man8/chpasswd.8 b/man/man8/chpasswd.8 index c15630a4..376e7057 100644 --- a/man/man8/chpasswd.8 +++ b/man/man8/chpasswd.8 @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ .\" Title: chpasswd .\" Author: Julianne Frances Haugh .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> -.\" Date: 01/23/2020 +.\" Date: 07/22/2021 .\" Manual: System Management Commands -.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.8.1 +.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.9 .\" Language: English .\" -.TH "CHPASSWD" "8" "01/23/2020" "shadow\-utils 4\&.8\&.1" "System Management Commands" +.TH "CHPASSWD" "8" "07/22/2021" "shadow\-utils 4\&.9" "System Management Commands" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ This defines the system default encryption algorithm for encrypting passwords (i It can take one of these values: \fIDES\fR (default), -\fIMD5\fR, \fISHA256\fR, \fISHA512\fR\&. +\fIMD5\fR, \fISHA256\fR, \fISHA512\fR\&. MD5 and DES should not be used for new hashes, see +crypt(5) +for recommendations\&. .sp Note: this parameter overrides the \fBMD5_CRYPT_ENAB\fR @@ -173,7 +175,7 @@ or .sp With a lot of rounds, it is more difficult to brute forcing the password\&. But note also that more CPU resources will be needed to authenticate users\&. .sp -If not specified, the libc will choose the default number of rounds (5000)\&. +If not specified, the libc will choose the default number of rounds (5000), which is orders of magnitude too low for modern hardware\&. .sp The values must be inside the 1000\-999,999,999 range\&. .sp |