The sed command in the instructions for shadow (in both the 6.6 and SVN) 
sets the password encryption to MD5.

Just by modifying that sed, I changed it to SHA512, which is just one of 
the options that should be more secure than MD5.  Everything just worked 
once I made that change.

Would changing shadow to use something more secure than MD5 be something 
that the developers might want to put into the book?

Thanks for LFS: I find it invaluable.

Kevin
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