Description of problem: Running authconfig-tui does not allow users to select sha512 or sha256 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.3.21-5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run authconfig-tui 2. see no sha512 or sha256 options 3. Actual results: no sha512 or sha256 options Expected results: It would be nice to see sha512 or sha256 listed for the more paranoid admins among us Additional info: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500176 and http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/statement.html
The authconfig-tui tool is deprecated and no new features should be added there. Please use either authconfig --passalgo=sha256 --update or authconfig-gtk GUI tool.
What will be replacing authconfig-tui, since this is what's listed in /etc/rc.sysinit when using 'touch /.unconfigured' from /etc/rc.sysinit # Configure machine if necessary. if [ -f /.unconfigured ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/rhgb-client ] && /usr/bin/rhgb-client --ping ; then chvt 1 fi if [ -x /usr/bin/system-config-keyboard ]; then /usr/bin/system-config-keyboard fi if [ -x /usr/bin/passwd ]; then /usr/bin/passwd root fi if [ -x /usr/sbin/system-config-network-tui ]; then /usr/sbin/system-config-network-tui fi if [ -x /usr/sbin/timeconfig ]; then /usr/sbin/timeconfig fi if [ -x /usr/sbin/authconfig-tui ]; then /usr/sbin/authconfig-tui --nostart fi if [ -x /usr/sbin/ntsysv ]; then /usr/sbin/ntsysv --level 35 fi If authconfig-tui is deprecated, then what will be replacing it in this context?
The default for password hashes in RHEL-6 will be SHA256 or SHA512 so there will be no need to set it up in the post install phase with authconfig-tui. On the other hand although the authconfig-tui is deprecated it is not going to be removed completely for probably a long time.
For RHEL6 that's fine, but what about RHEL5, which carries support until 2014 or so? Not to be antagonistic, but if it's not going away, and is referenced by other config tools (firstboot, rc.sysinit, etc) shouldn't it either be updated to support the auth mechanisms that authconfig supports or at least notify users that it's deprecated, and they should use something else (ala nslookup)?