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I'm using John The Ripper for password cracking and adding new users/passwords to test it out. When I create a new user and password, the hash starts with $y$ which is from yescrypt. When testing a new password cracker - hashcat - it apparently doesn't support that format.

Is there a way to change the hash method when creating a new password - sudo passwd xxxx?
Is there a way to get hashcat to work with this hash?

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You need to edit the /etc/pam.d/common-password file.

Look for a the line:
password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure yescrypt

and change yescrypt to something like sha512:
password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure sha512

Before:

kali:$y$j9T$Zvm8nb[redacted]

After:

kali:$6$kin2RTFsKNkf[redacted]

There is a request to add yescrypt to hashcat. https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/2816

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