On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 07:50:57AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > thanks. I've opened a report upstream. > > https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/1483 > > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 09:24:35AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 08:58:15AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > This is even worse now, chpasswd won't accept a perfectly valid yescrypt > > > > hash: > > > > > > > > $ echo 9hKGOX79oaP4FEhQ2xQ6wLvPXsTTUtPiYu4QCXsc | mkpasswd > > > > --hash=yescrypt --stdin > > > > $y$j9T$VPuG6eC6CTZG7fxHR1YwP0$kZeswr5rIJKCXbeLvE/R412AO4vB1HLwuBrqg1nnPU4 > > > > # echo > > > > "aust:$y$j9T$VPuG6eC6CTZG7fxHR1YwP0$kZeswr5rIJKCXbeLvE/R412AO4vB1HLwuBrqg1nnPU4" > > > > | chpasswd --encrypted > > > > chpasswd: (line 1, user aust) invalid password hash > > > > chpasswd: error detected, changes ignored
As noted by vinz, this is user error. After bash variable interpolation, this became echo 'aust:' | chpasswd --encrypted. Not what you wanted, I guess. > > > # echo "aust:*" | chpasswd --encrypted > > > chpasswd: (line 1, user aust) invalid password hash > > > chpasswd: error detected, changes ignored This and the !-variant will be fixed in a moment using patches from Alejandro. Chris
