On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 01:42:47PM +0000, Tuomas Tonteri wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Running out of imagination here with 5.6 stable, useradd is not accepting
> encrypt -b 8 output for the encrypted password. Same works on 5.3. Why, any
> ideas?
>
> # uname -a
> OpenBSD host 5.3 GENERIC#53 amd64
> # PASS=$(echo Testing123 | encrypt -b 8)
> # echo $PASS
> $2a$08$ZfDcVFG2OiL.KT.MRstLVuBwPbIyl9qfw6e7Qdkl8dAeQomYKL8Me
> # useradd -p $PASS -m testtest
> # userdel testtest
> #
>
> # uname -a
> OpenBSD host 5.6 GENERIC#310 amd64
> # PASS=$(echo Testing123 | encrypt -b 8)
> # echo $PASS
> $2b$08$VqyC1rcbQZJh2VmmLN4wt.BGKn/Jvb97jWj4EhUnKlzQe55lgReBq
> # useradd -p $PASS -m testtest
> useradd: Password
> `$2b$08$VqyC1rcbQZJh2VmmLN4wt.BGKn/Jvb97jWj4EhUnKlzQe55lgReBq' is invalid:
> setting it to `*************'
> # userdel testtest
> #
>
> I have tried all sorts of quote combination as well as running this from
> scripts and from the shell prompt. Always the same outcome.
>
> Br,
> Tuomas.
This is a bug in 5.6, fixed in -current.
-Otto
