SPECS: pwdutils.spec - added crypt patch to restore MD5(!) and add blowfish...

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Tue Sep 9 07:17:10 CEST 2008


On Monday 08 September 2008, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:06:14PM +0200, qboosh wrote:
> > Author: qboosh                       Date: Mon Sep  8 20:06:14 2008 GMT
> > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > ---- Log message:
> > - added crypt patch to restore MD5(!) and add blowfish support in
> > chpasswd(8) - added lt patch to fix build with libtool 2
> > - updated am BR
> > - dropped outdated todo
> > - release 5
>
> It's important change - without this patch (or Openwall crypt-blowfish
> glibc patches or crypt-blowfish support from SuSE libxcrypt) chpasswd(8)
> supported _only_ DES hashes (and thus passwords truncated to
> 8 characters).

What upstream said about this btw?

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