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User story #16674: Use BCrypt by default for storing user's local password

Add upgrade note to document how to switch from previous hash function to BCrypt

Added by Elaad FURREEDAN almost 5 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Released
Priority:
N/A
Assignee:
Alexis Mousset
Category:
Documentation
Target version:
6.1.0~beta1
Pull Request:
https://github.com/Normation/rudder-d...
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Description

RUDDER used by default SHA512, since version 6.1.0 we replace it by BCrypt (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt).
We need to add a note to explain that the user need to manually change the hash function set in /opt/rudder/etc/rudder-users.xml and replace all password.

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