[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#525153: Please support passwd --stdin

[Michael Gebetsroither]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.3.1-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Please support reading passwords from stdin in passwd (restricted to
root only).

It's a bit related to #505640 imho, but instead of all the quirks to get
the encrypted password back from pam just depend on the right
pam.d/common-password. Pipe the unencrypted password to passwd and
let pam do his job.

The current method is to use passwd with expect but the solution is
quite slow, so passwd --stdin would be preferable.

michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-grml64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.iso885915, LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso885915 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.23.1     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                1.0.1-5    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                      0.99.7.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.59-1   SELinux shared libraries

passwd recommends no packages.

passwd suggests no packages.

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