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

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 01:25:32PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>Don't get me wrong... in /etc/shadow directly: sure.
>But in the input to chpasswd? That seems a bit weird to me?
>
>chpasswd(8) says
>       -e, --encrypted
>           Supplied passwords are in encrypted form.
>
>... which doesn't say much :-)

I think that chpasswd should not try to be smarter than its user at this 
point. But *shrug*

>But I don't have a strong opinion either way.

neither do I. This just makes testing adduser a bit harder.

Greetings
Marc

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