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chpasswd using different format in shadow than passwd #145

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mika opened this issue Nov 27, 2019 · 1 comment

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mika commented Nov 27, 2019

Quoting from IRC:

The root password for grml-debootstrap is added with $1$ to /etc/shadow (MD5?), and not $6$ (SHA256?) what passwd does.

Needs investigation whether we can do something about it.

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fransvanberckel commented Aug 3, 2020 •

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A walk around ...

CHPASSWD_OPTION=
if chpasswd --help 2>&1 | grep -q -- '-m,' ; then
   CHPASSWD_OPTION='--md5'
fi
if chpasswd --help 2>&1 | grep -q -- '-e,' ; then
   CHPASSWD_OPTION='--encrypted'
fi

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