[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#81721: chpasswd should be pam-aware or at least support md5

[Nicolas FRANCOIS]

retitle 81721 [TO CLOSE 20050327] chpasswd should be pam-aware or at least support md5
thanks

Joey,

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:58:17PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> chpasswd does not use pam, and it does not support md5 passwords unless
> you crypt them yourself. It should ideally support pam and use that to
> tell if md5 passwords are in effect. Failing that, it should have a
> switch to make it crypt the entered password with md5.

Since then, a --md5 option has been added, and from the source it seems
that chpasswd is now PAM aware.

So, I'm about closing this bug but, of course, I need your input a very
last time.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral