Webmin "system -> changepassword" create password in with DES hash

[Dominic Pageau]

Ubuntu 22.04
Webmin from apt

When I change a user password with "system -> changepassword", new password is stored in DES format instead of $y$ type which refer to YESCRYPT.

Why ?
How to change that ?

[Ilia]

Hi,

This can be configured on System ⇾ Users and Groups ⇾ Configuration: New user options page with Password encryption method option.

Also, you can define the program directly for changing the password using System ⇾ Change Passwords ⇾ Configuration: Configurable options page.

[Dominic Pageau]

Ubuntu 22.04
Webmin from apt

webmin 1.991

System ⇾ Users and Groups ⇾ Configuration: New user options page with Password encryption method is set to "Determine automatically"

available options are
- DES crypt
- MD5
- Blowfish
- SHA512

Yescrypt which is default in ubuntu 22.04 is missing ($y$ string in /etc/shadow). Does it fail to detect yescrypt and revert to DES ?

System ⇾ Change Passwords ⇾ Configuration: Configurable options is set to "Update system files directly" which it does with DES encryption.

Can I leave that to "Update system files directly" and force yescrypt or I need to use "passwd" command ?

EDIT:

When I use /usr/bin/passwd it now fail to change in /etc/samba/smbpasswd nevertheless "Change password in other modules" is checked

[Ilia]

You're right, this is new to Ubuntu 20 and 22. I'll update this ticket when it's implemented.

[Ilia]

This has been implemented for inclusion to upcoming Webmin 1.995.