What are raspberry's shadow file crypto functions?

[guerlando]

The shadow file at /etc/shadow is where I can change a user's password without any binary tool. If I edit that file, it works. I need to change that file, but I've read that different distributions uses different cryptographic hash functions. So which one raspbian uses and how to use it? If it's sha256, is it just sha256(password)?

Thank you!

[DougieLawson]

Take a look at it. The second field tells you the encrytion used for the password.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understan ... adow-file/

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dougie:$6$redactedredactedredacted/:17427:0:99999:7:::

That $6 means sha-512.