[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#505640: generate hashed passwords to stdout for other tools

[Nicolas François]

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