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system-tools-backends package

  1. Bug #287134
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 287134

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

I don't really understand how it's working currently. Is Ubuntu using SHA? If so, is liboobs writing MD5 passwords to /etc/shadow?

We should at least support SHA as well as MD5. I plan to make a release before Karmic so that a few bugfixes go into it. Do you think you could improve the patch before that?

Using PAM is of course much cleaner and logical, but we need to find a way to send the clear password to the backends, and that won't be done before Karmic. An intermediate fix would be Kees's patch [1] to use chpasswd, but upstreaming it is difficult since we have to be sure chpasswd is present, or use the stb for that. So maybe it would be worth fixing the problem once for all using PAM, instead of spending time on temporary fixes.

We have a ready-to-use perl code if we want to use PAM in the stb at [2]. But before that we need to send the clear password...

1: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19941588/liboobs_2.22.0-1ubuntu1.debdiff (bug 51551)
2: http://nik.pelov.name/files/Authen/PAM/FAQ.html#2__can_i_change_a_password_non_interactively