Major Hayden 6bc192d0b9 V-3857{4,6,7}: Password hashing algorithms
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The STIG requires SHA512 to be used for hashing password since it is
in the list of FIPS 140-2 approved hashing algorithms. This is also the
default in Ubuntu 14.04.
The ``libuser`` package isn't installed by default in Ubuntu or via
openstack-ansible. The Ansible tasks will do the following:
* Check to see if libuser is installed
* If it's installed, it will check for the password hashing algorithm in
``/etc/libuser.conf``
* If libuser is installed **and** the password hashing algorithm isn't SHA512,
an error will be printed and the playbook will fail
Further reading:
* `FIPS 140-2 on Wikipedia`_
* `FIPS 140-2 from NIST`_
.. _FIPS 140-2 on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2
.. _FIPS 140-2 from NIST: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/standards.html