When you’ve been using the same Linux system for a while, you might wantto upgrade the password hashing methods used. This article explains howto discover the methods supported by your system, set the preferredmethod and then upgrade the password hashes to make use of the newhashing method. You can see the supported hashing methods by looking at man 5 crypt. (Note that man section 5 indicates “Fileformats and conversions, e.g. /etc/passwd”.) Currently, onmy system, yescrypt is favored a...
