diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index 8a0639ea4..c6617baa2 100755
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -845,8 +845,8 @@ passed as argument rather than by table value',
         descriptions => {
             key => 'The type of component this user/pw is for.  Valid values: blade (management module), ipmi (BMC), system (nodes), omapi (DHCP), hmc, ivm, cec, frame, switch.',
             username => 'The default userid for this type of component',
-            password => 'The default password for this type of component',
-            cryptmethod => 'Indicates the method that was used to encrypt the password attribute.  On AIX systems, if a value is provided for this attribute it indicates that the password attribute is encrypted.  If the cryptmethod value is not set it indicates the password is a simple string value. On Linux systems, the cryptmethod can be set to md5, sha256 or sha512. If not set, sha256 will be used as default.',
+            password => 'The default password for this type of component. On Linux, a crypted form could be provided. Hashes starting with $1$, $5$ and $6$ (md5, sha256 and sha512 respectively) are supported.',
+            cryptmethod => 'Indicates the method to use to encrypt the password attribute.  On AIX systems, if a value is provided for this attribute it indicates that the password attribute is encrypted.  If the cryptmethod value is not set it indicates the password is a simple string value. On Linux systems, the cryptmethod can be set to md5, sha256 or sha512. If not set, sha256 will be used as default to encrypt plain-text passwords.',
             authdomain => 'The domain in which this entry has meaning, e.g. specifying different domain administrators per active directory domain',
             comments => 'Any user-written notes.',
             disable  => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",