Changing password error

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donatas

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Hello,

It seems there's a new problem regarding changing pasword in DirectAdmin, recently we started to get error when chaning password:
Error changing password

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/usr/sbin/chpasswd: invalid option -- 'e' Usage: chpasswd [options] Options: -h, --help display this help message and exit


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Hello,

We're getting a few reports coming in regarding that.
After some quick research, it looks like they are (or did) drop the encryption option for the chpasswd command as of July 22nd. We like encryption, but it doesn't allow PAM to decide what to do with password, hence they now require plaintext. It's not much of a security issue, since user:pass are passed via stdin. Although this is plaintext, the values won't be seen by anyone on the system.

If that's the route Debian is going, we don't have much of a choice but to follow. For the next release, I'll change the password setting command to not use -e anymore, and pass the user:pass values to chpassswd in plaintext.

John
 
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