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Re: Change Defaulth ssha passoword encryption algorithm



--On Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:46 PM -0400 David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:

It depends on what your operating system's crypt(3) supports. Most
Linux/Unix system should support MD5crypt, but that is no longer
considered secure (per the original author, PHK).

Some crypt implementations are non-portable, so using crypt can be problematic. Generally with the SSHA2 contrib module, there's not a need to go the crypt route.

More information at <https://github.com/openldap/openldap/tree/master/contrib/slapd-modules/passwd/sha2>

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount