Re: Security implications of chpasswd.

2002-02-28 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
hello, chpasswd is in the shadow source package (you can find this out using apt-show commands). You can workaround the problem by using a script which will use the -e option and fill an encrypted passwd, this will also solved this other problem you talk about. There is a bug already reported abou

Re: Security implications of chpasswd.

2002-02-28 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
hello, chpasswd is in the shadow source package (you can find this out using apt-show commands). You can workaround the problem by using a script which will use the -e option and fill an encrypted passwd, this will also solved this other problem you talk about. There is a bug already reported abo

Security implications of chpasswd.

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
For some very good reasons I had to do a mass change of passwords on one of our exposed login machines (no breach/hack, different reason). There is a utility included in Debian Stable (and the others) to do this called chpasswd. I believe there may be some security issue

Security implications of chpasswd.

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
For some very good reasons I had to do a mass change of passwords on one of our exposed login machines (no breach/hack, different reason). There is a utility included in Debian Stable (and the others) to do this called chpasswd. I believe there may be some security issu