The chpasswd(8) utility, included in crypt-utils, can be used to change passwords en masse. However, the crypt-utils package does not include any program to simply GENERATE new encrypted shadow entries. We need a utility something like this: $ genshadowp -c MD5 examplepassword mysalt ^D $1$mysalt$ASu1BY1lEgAhHy08yowJD/ $ genshadowp -c MD5 examplepassword ^D $1$pgVR5ZPM$Uw/uyKxLGli5W9CkKgZd.. In other words, this utility should read two lines from STDIN. The first line is the password; the second line is the salt. If no salt is supplied (e.g., EOF is encountered after reading the first line, a salt a generated randomly. The utility should then print the corresponding sp_pwdp field on STDOUT. The reason why chpasswd(8) cannot be used is because we are *not* updating the /etc/shadow file on the local host; rather, we are generate a new sp_pwdp field that will be distributed to many, many hosts via other mechanisms. The ability to specify a salt would be useful to verify existing passwords. Adding this functionality to chpasswd(8) might make more sense than creating a separate program to do this; I'm not sure.
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Changing version to 'rawhide', as this issue has never been addressed.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle. Changing version to '13'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Closing, as there's clearly no interest in this. If I write something else, I'll send it upstream.