You're one hundred percent correct - MD5 hashed is pretty terrible, the stack exchange posts with salts and sha512 examples are far more desirable for certain.
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 4:18 PM, David Sommerseth < [email protected]> wrote: > On 19/07/17 02:50, Steven Miano wrote: > > usermod -p $(openssl passwd -1 ${SOME_TEXT}) ${USERNAME_HERE} > > Eeeek! -1 gives MD5 hashed passwords! Don't do that! MD5 is considered > broken and very weak! > > > There's some Python and Perl examples here which gives SHA512 based > password hashes. > > <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52108/how-to- > create-sha512-password-hashes-on-command-line> > > > -- > kind regards, > > David Sommerseth > -- Miano, Steven M. http://stevenmiano.com
