On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 04:27:16PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 11:05:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 03:18:17PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > So, just to be clear, you think all would be fine if we accept * followed > > > by anything, and ! not followed by anything? > > > > I would still prefer that a low level tool like chpasswd would still allow > > the sysadmin to shoot themselves in the foot, but I would live with > > consistency at least. > > Hm, looking at alx's patch, ! followed by nothing should already be > accepted. Is that actually not working for you?
Sorry, I misread. Yes, i see that's not handled. > The * followed by anything is not yet handled, I'll send a patch for that.
