Re: bin/58005: passwd always errors out; cannot change passwords anymore

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/58005; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/58005: passwd always errors out; cannot change passwords anymore
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 13:32:04 -0000 (UTC)

 martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) writes:
 
 > I am not sure if sha1 is useable for your NIS setup (or if that is involved
 > at all).
 
 NIS itself doesn't care, it stores the password hash as a string
 and doesn't interpret it except for splitting a passwd line by colon
 characters.
 
 But programs from the NIS era often try to compute and match hashes
 themselves, and these fail to understand anything but the legacy
 hash format.