tags 505640 wishlist tags 505640 wontfix thanks On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:43:51PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > There are situations where a non-root user needs to generate an encrypted > password using the current system configuration (i.e. following the > settings in /etc/login.defs). As an example, liboobs passes an encrypted > password to system-tools-backends which then calls "chpasswd -e". > > To avoid 3rd party re-implementations of the salt-generation and system > configuration parsing, it would be handy to have a tool part of shadow that > handled this and produced a hashed password on stdout.
I'm not actively working on this. I already mentioned my preference to use mkpasswd for this. Bug tagged accordingly. Best Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
