command chpasswd on busybox 1.17.3

[walter harms]

Am 20.07.2015 18:02, schrieb ANTOINE ROUQUETTE:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> My question is has followed :
> 
> when I use chpasswd command, the option -e allow me to supply password in
> encrypted form. How do I know which encryption form I should use for this
> command?
> 
> Should I give a MD5 encryted pasword, or a DES encrypted password?
> 

The documentation says:
-m      Use MD5 encryption instead of DES

so i guess the default is DES.

perhaps this should be changed into -c  des|md5 as the std. command does.

re,
 wh

> Best regards.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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