I've selected the most likely packages to be involved, based on a guess.
Without knowing how the user attempted to set their password though,
this is going to be pretty impossible to track down.
/etc/passwd hasn't had passwords stored in it by default for something
like 25 years. My best guess at the moment is some vastly inappropriate
tool was used somewhere along the way (with suspicion leaning towards
web-based 'consoles').
If you can figure out how this happened (or better yet, tell us how to
recreate it), please do report back and mark the bug New again.
Thanks
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security
** Also affects: pam (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: shadow (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: base-passwd (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Xubuntu 18.04 passwd file in etc displays passwd unencrypted
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