Centos – What password hash algorithm does each version of CentOS use by default

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I'm looking for a table of CentOS versions and corresponding default password hash algorithms. Google searches didn't reveal any matches that look like they have all the information in one place.

Ubuntu publishes a table like the one I'm looking for on their wiki.

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EL5 and previous versions used MD5 password hashing. EL6 changed to SHA512 password hashing by default. You could put that in a table, but it would be a very small table...

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I haven't tested this.

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Have you checked the second parameter of the PHP md5() function?

cat md5.php 
<?php echo base64_encode(md5('test',true));

php md5.php 
CY9rzUYh03PK3k6DJie09g==

You should use the raw binary format (and that's why it was encoded with base64).

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