[Pkg-shadow-devel] chpasswd, -e now missing

[Thomas Lange]

Hi,

I'm currently using chpasswd --encrypted in lenny for setting a
password. I just saw that in the new version of chpasswd does not
support -e any more, and the man page says, the password must be in
clear text. IMO this is a security issue (maybe a RC bug?). But I like
to give chpasswd only as already encrypted string for security
reasons.

Is it still possible to give chpasswd an encrypted string? Are there
other methos for doing that?
-- 
regards Thomas