On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:04:12PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Maybe I missed giving a piece of info. The default password is DES which > is really crap and starts with $1 so simply enabling blowfish DES is indeed crap, but it hasn't been the default for a long time. The $1$ hashes are salted MD5, as crypt(3) can confirm. -- Mantas M.