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Does anyone know how to verify which hashing algorithm is used to encrypt the passwords in /etc/shadow on red hat linux enterprise systems? or what the default hash setting is? Is there a file that stores this information?

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Authentication related settings are stored in /etc/sysconfig/authconfig. The default is MD5.

Look at Article 16972 in the Redhat Knowledgebase for details of how to figure out which algorithm was used.

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