diff --git a/custom/conf/app.example.ini b/custom/conf/app.example.ini
index f060f13c58..a3349f9865 100644
--- a/custom/conf/app.example.ini
+++ b/custom/conf/app.example.ini
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ ONLY_ALLOW_PUSH_IF_GITEA_ENVIRONMENT_SET = true
 ;Classes include "lower,upper,digit,spec"
 PASSWORD_COMPLEXITY = off
 ; Password Hash algorithm, either "argon2", "pbkdf2", "scrypt" or "bcrypt"
-PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO = argon2
+PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO = pbkdf2
 ; Set false to allow JavaScript to read CSRF cookie
 CSRF_COOKIE_HTTP_ONLY = true
 ; Validate against https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords to see if a password has been exposed
diff --git a/docs/content/doc/advanced/config-cheat-sheet.en-us.md b/docs/content/doc/advanced/config-cheat-sheet.en-us.md
index ca09d4f032..77464a509a 100644
--- a/docs/content/doc/advanced/config-cheat-sheet.en-us.md
+++ b/docs/content/doc/advanced/config-cheat-sheet.en-us.md
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ relation to port exhaustion.
 - `IMPORT_LOCAL_PATHS`: **false**: Set to `false` to prevent all users (including admin) from importing local path on server.
 - `INTERNAL_TOKEN`: **\<random at every install if no uri set\>**: Secret used to validate communication within Gitea binary.
 - `INTERNAL_TOKEN_URI`: **<empty>**: Instead of defining internal token in the configuration, this configuration option can be used to give Gitea a path to a file that contains the internal token (example value: `file:/etc/gitea/internal_token`)
-- `PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO`: **argon2**: The hash algorithm to use \[argon2, pbkdf2, scrypt, bcrypt\].
+- `PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO`: **pbkdf2**: The hash algorithm to use \[argon2, pbkdf2, scrypt, bcrypt\], argon2 will spend more memory than others.
 - `CSRF_COOKIE_HTTP_ONLY`: **true**: Set false to allow JavaScript to read CSRF cookie.
 - `MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH`: **6**: Minimum password length for new users.
 - `PASSWORD_COMPLEXITY`: **off**: Comma separated list of character classes required to pass minimum complexity. If left empty or no valid values are specified, checking is disabled (off):
diff --git a/modules/setting/setting.go b/modules/setting/setting.go
index 7ae8bb352d..77a18e3593 100644
--- a/modules/setting/setting.go
+++ b/modules/setting/setting.go
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ func NewContext() {
 	ImportLocalPaths = sec.Key("IMPORT_LOCAL_PATHS").MustBool(false)
 	DisableGitHooks = sec.Key("DISABLE_GIT_HOOKS").MustBool(true)
 	OnlyAllowPushIfGiteaEnvironmentSet = sec.Key("ONLY_ALLOW_PUSH_IF_GITEA_ENVIRONMENT_SET").MustBool(true)
-	PasswordHashAlgo = sec.Key("PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO").MustString("argon2")
+	PasswordHashAlgo = sec.Key("PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO").MustString("pbkdf2")
 	CSRFCookieHTTPOnly = sec.Key("CSRF_COOKIE_HTTP_ONLY").MustBool(true)
 	PasswordCheckPwn = sec.Key("PASSWORD_CHECK_PWN").MustBool(false)