Changing a user's password in RHEL4 results in DES encrypted shadow entry versus MD5 encrypted.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Running the /bin/passwd command to change a user password results in DES encrypted password instead of an MD5 encrypted password

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.8

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