[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1124835: Bug#1124835: chpasswd hash check goes too far

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>I'm kinda onboard with rejecting things that are not actual hashes,
>because that would seem consistent to me with what chpasswd is
>supposed to do.

Then the documentation should be adapted. That is a rather fundamental 
change in unix semantics, I have seen that way to lock accounts all over 
all places.

Greetings
Marc

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