On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:17:22 -0800 Don Juan wrote: > Not sure if I am getting what you mean here but to me sounds like you > did not complete what is in the wiki in regards to running blowfish, > since you need AUR package and what not and it says there is more to do > than change a single file to make blowfish the algo.
I know I didn't. Blowfish is stronger but I'm settled with sha512 rather than building a library and fixing any possible fallout in the future. Maybe I missed giving a piece of info. The default password is DES which is really crap and starts with $1 so simply enabling blowfish in /etc/default/passwd has enabled SHA512, you'd expect to uncomment SHA512 not blowfish. It seems for sha512 you don't have to do as much as the wiki suggests anymore.