How to change the default number of rounds done by SHA-2 password-hashing
Issue
- We want to make it harder for the hashes in our
/etc/shadow
file to be brute-force attacked
How can we raise the number of rounds performed bycrypt()
?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 +
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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