[rhelv6-list] Password Hashing and Rounds

[Damian Gerow]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > Is there a reason that 'authconfig' doesn't support setting the number of
> > rounds?  Or that the rounds options set in login.defs and/or libuser.conf are
> > ignored?
> 
> authconfig doesn't support setting a TON of features in various files.
> It is meant mainly to do 90% of the configuration needs that people
> need to get the system working in 90% of the environments. Outside of
> that the number of options explodes exponentially and need to be
> handled by the system administrator themselves.

Thanks, that's pretty much what I'd figured.  I'm just trying to avoid a
situation where an otherwise uninformed admin runs authconfig legitimately,
and overwrites any custom changes.

I guess the easy solution is to just remove the authconfig package.  :)