'passwd' does not enable password in /etc/passwd ':x:'
Tomasz Czapiewski
xeros at irc.pl
Sat Apr 2 21:06:11 UTC 2011
I've encountered problem that BusyBox 1.18.4 'passwd' module does
create/update passwords in /etc/shadow file but does not put 'x' in
/etc/passwd after login name to be able to login using this password if
there was no password before ('login::..').
'passwd' command on Debian or Ubuntu does handle it this way that does not
update /etc/shadow but writes encrypted password into /etc/passwd in such
case, althrough IMO it's not good either when the /etc/shadow file exists.
Regards,
Tomasz Czapiewski
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