passwd,chpasswd: reset password in /etc/passwd to "x" if /etc/shadow was updated

Signed-off-by: Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/loginutils/chpasswd.c b/loginutils/chpasswd.c
index c2d86664d..6c4296faa 100644
--- a/loginutils/chpasswd.c
+++ b/loginutils/chpasswd.c
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ int chpasswd_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                  * we try to find & change his passwd in /etc/passwd */
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS
                 rc = update_passwd(bb_path_shadow_file, name, pass, NULL);
-                if (rc == 0) /* no lines updated, no errors detected */
+                if (rc > 0) /* password in /etc/shadow was updated */
+                        pass = (char*)"x";
+                if (rc >= 0)
+                        /* 0 = /etc/shadow missing (not an error), >0 = passwd changed in /etc/shadow */
 #endif
                         rc = update_passwd(bb_path_passwd_file, name, pass, NULL);
                 /* LOGMODE_BOTH logs to syslog also */