Werk #14386: Recommend using htpasswd with bcrypt

Component	Site management
Title	Recommend using htpasswd with bcrypt
Date	Sep 22, 2022
Level	Trivial Change
Class	New Feature
Compatibility	Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions	2.2.0b1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 2.1.0p15 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The welcome message displayed by omd create now recommends setting the password for cmkadmin using htpasswd -B -C 12. This way htpasswd will use bcrypt with a work factor of 12 instead of MD5 to hash the password, which is consistent with the behavior when setting passwords in WATO.

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