chpass(1) patch for changing only crypted passwords

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:

DS> Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> writes:
DS> > BTW, a question inspired by ru@: why pw_equal() skips password
DS> > field? Its interface is unpublished, and the only consumers are
DS> >
DS> > marck at woozle:/lh/src.current> grep -Rl pw_equal .
DS> > ./lib/libutil/libutil.h
DS> > ./lib/libutil/pw_util.c
DS> > ./release/picobsd/tinyware/passwd/pw_copy.c
DS> > ./usr.bin/chpass/chpass.c
DS> >
DS> > and tyniware is false alarm ;)
DS> 
DS> IIRC, pw_equal() was originally intended for locating the entry to
DS> replace when changing the password...

Ah yes, pw_copy() uses it internally, and seems to have to skip password field 
checking.


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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