Post upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, password hashing rounds 'rounds=100000' displaying in /etc/shadow file for new users.
Issue
- Password hashing rounds are displaying with higher values in the
/etc/shadowfile compared to previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions. - The following is an example of the unexpected password hashing rounds value:
testuser:$6$rounds=100000$.U.m9T6qenewVmOX$Dh297tmh/tAR3S1zgYZ/Gdtolok0m3RLGjkmQUOck4/1sKlp7UzJ.iTTbQBbIV2liTaCERtRER.u1bRNnDvYD.:20060:0:99999:7:::
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5
shadow-utils-4.9-9.el9.x86_64or later
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