Re: [Audit-test-developer] [RFC] passwd --stdin does not work with shadow utils

[Linda K. <lin...@hp...>]

On 4/2/2015 11:45 AM, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> Since SLES12 switched to shadow utils the option --stdin for passwd is
> no longer recognized. I've did a bit research and it looks like
> 
> echo "$USER:$PASSWORD" | chpasswd
> 
> is a suitable replacement. Can we replace the the occurences of
> passwd --stdin in utils/run.bash with chpasswd or do we need to switch
> between passwd --stdin and chpasswd depending on distro/version we run
> on?

That seems to work with RHEL6.x, which is probably the oldest distro
release that the test suite currently supports, so I don't think we'd
need to special case it.  I assume it works with SLES11 too?

-- ljk

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