[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#300268: marked as done (/usr/share/man/man5/passwd.5.gz contains inaccurate information)

Thu Jul 14 07:03:05 UTC 2005

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Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge1
Severity: minor

"man 5 passwd" produces documentation that is not entirely accurate. The
second paragraph contains the following text:-

"The encryped password consists of 13 characters
from  the  64  character  alphabet a thru z, A thru Z, 0 thru 9,
. and /.  Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is
interpreted."

This information is clearly incorrect when the system is set to use MD5
passwords, which is increasingly the case. There's also a typo in
"encrypted".

Mike.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.4
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.3.2.ds1-20     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules          0.76-22          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                0.76-22          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  login                   1:4.0.3-31sarge1 system login tools

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Subject: Re: Bug#300268: /usr/share/man/man5/passwd.5.gz contains inaccurate information
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Hello,

This bugs was fixed in an earlier release.

The passwd.5 man page has been updated with the upstream patch and no
longer indicate that the password has 13 characters.
Also, the typo on "encryped" was fixed.

Thanks for you report.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral