Bug 4176 - root password hash remains weak after selecting MD5 hash
Summary: root password hash remains weak after selecting MD5 hash
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Keywords: Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-07-23 12:49 UTC by mommi
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-07-29 07:01:08 UTC

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Description mommi 1999-07-23 12:49:22 UTC 
root password hash remains weak after selecting MD5
hash. /etc/shadow has a very short hash of root password
and long hashes of (ordinary) users added afterwards. This
must be documented so root remembers to change his password
after install to get the stronger hash.
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 1999-07-29 07:01:59 UTC 
This is because the change in the authentication policies comes after
we set the root password. We will address this problem in the next
release.
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