06-07-2013
You can't convert. Just wipe out the password and reset them on the Red Hat side. You can also pre-generate the SHA512 hash if you want and fill that in (e.g. you might do this for root). Alternatively you could try to match up auth hash support, but since there were some bugs notably in blowfish... that might be harder than it sounds.
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