On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 05:56:58PM -0000, Milan Bouchet-Valat 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?

The current patches in Ubuntu use chpasswd to determine the hashing (i.e.
it is not something stb should have knowledge of).

But, as you say, that requires a patched chpasswd, so it's totally
unacceptable for upstreaming.  :(

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users-admin sets up maximum 8 character password
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