It is not a bug in chpasswd, it is a bug in PAM. Get the pam updates from
updates.redhat.com and install them. Then it will work fine. I filed a
bugzilla report on this a day or two after 7.2 was released and never heard
back, then did a bugzilla search last week to find the fix was referenced
from the bug report.
- rick -
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jim Bija wrote:
> In trying to get together a disaster recovery plan a good friend of mine
> Richard Rager wrote this script for me:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # echo test
> for a in `cat users.txt`
> do
> {
> u=(`echo $a | cut -f 1 -d ':'`);
> p=(`echo $a | cut -f 2 -d ':'`);
> echo "User : "$u
> echo "Password: "$p
> adduser -s "/bin/false" $u
> echo "$u:$p" | chpasswd
> }
> done
>
> the users.txt file would look like this:
>
> username:password
> jim:jim431
> joe:joe'spassword
>
> After executing this script i was curious as to why when i tried to login as
> joe his password did not work. First thoughts were it was the weird chars in
> his password that were throwing chpasswd off, perhaps thinking it was being
> told to do something, specialy if a password would contain a & or something.
> After pulling out a few hairs i bumped into the problem.
> chpasswd is only allowing the first 8 chars. If i try to log in joe with a
> password of joe'spas it works fine.
>
> SO, the question is. Is this a major bug or what? I am using MD5 and assumed
> i could use all 32 of the bytes allowed, however using that script with
> chpasswd i can not.
>
> Someone told me about the newusers command and i will be looking into it. If
> someone can send me a example file that adds a new user with
> username,password and what shell to give them only i would greatly appreciate!
> Also, does anyone know if newusers has the same problem chpasswd has?
>
> Thanks...
>
> Jim.
>
>
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