Change Password Encryption
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The default password encryption on CentOS or Fedora is pretty weak.  If your shadow file were to be compromised it would not take long to get your passwords.  The command below will allow you to change your encryption to be the much stronger sha512 encryption.

authconfig –passalgo=sha512 –update

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