Bug 372285

Summary:	app-admin/makepasswd-1.10 does not support the option "--crypt-md5"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sergey Gusarov <laborer2008>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Sergey Gusarov 2011-06-19 18:13:41 UTC

makepasswd - this is a very old program(1998 year in the man page) and not supported by anyone other than Debian. We can assume the current version of Debian is the upstream.
The option "--crypt-md5" is known in other linux-distros for a long time. Strange that it does not exist in Gentoo. Patch from Debian is adding support for this option.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Patch from http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/makepasswd (makepasswd_1.10-5.diff.gz) added to makepasswd ebuild.

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-06-21 00:38:51 UTC

I agree with the crypt output feature, but disagree with the switch from /dev/random to /dev/urandom