changing md5 hashed for sha

[Christopher J. Ruwe]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:40:51 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> > For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has
> > been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the
> > sense of being more expensive to crack.
> 
> is md5 that easy to crack?

It has been discussed recently, cf
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-June/006271.html
or virtually the first half of
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-June/thread.html

Cheers,
-- 
Christopher
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