Did anybody get a chance to look at this and decide that it wasn't
the case or was?  I was suprised because I didn't hear _anything_ and am
wondering if I was doing something wrong...

        Resubmiting...
Dameion Stark






Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:34:58 -0600 (CST)
From: Visigoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: /etc/periodic/daily/200.backup-passwd and MD5


All flames welcome as a learning experience.... ;-)

        I am currently running a -current on a group of machines where I
work.  I decided to use the MD5 libscrypt passwords, and noticed something
strange in the daily output e-mail.  When the MD5 passwords are used the
daily output e-mail fails to truncate the encrypted passwd from the
/etc/master.passwd file before e-mailing out the diffs.  This is the case
even on a machine which was built today.  I haven't seen any info on
-current about it so I thought I would bring it up.

        I also wrote and attached small patch to take care of the issue in
the short term. all it does is change:

diff $bak/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd |\
                sed 's/^\([<>] [^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:(password):/'
to:

diff $bak/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd |\
                sed 's/^\([^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:(password):/'

        My logic could be messed up, so if there are any issues that I
overlooked in the patch I would love to hear about them.  I thought it
might be a good thing to take care of quick before -RELEASE (yea!)

Thanks all...

Damieon Stark
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*** /var/backups/200.backup-passwd      Mon Feb 21 09:19:00 2000
--- /etc/periodic/daily/200.backup-passwd       Mon Feb 21 09:19:28 2000
***************
*** 16,22 ****
      if cmp -s $bak/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd; then :; else
        echo "$host passwd diffs:"
        diff -u $bak/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd |\
!               sed 's/^\([<>] [^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:(password):/'
        mv $bak/master.passwd.bak $bak/master.passwd.bak2
        cp -p /etc/master.passwd $bak/master.passwd.bak
      fi
--- 16,22 ----
      if cmp -s $bak/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd; then :; else
        echo "$host passwd diffs:"
        diff -u $bak/master.passwd.bak /etc/master.passwd |\
!               sed 's/^\([^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:(password):/'
        mv $bak/master.passwd.bak $bak/master.passwd.bak2
        cp -p /etc/master.passwd $bak/master.passwd.bak
      fi

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