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Hi this is working as design.
More detailed info.
- Customer was looking at how to copy encrypted passwd from one system to other system So that they do not have to manually change it in 100+lpar.
- customer used chpasswd -e command to do so. However it does not work
- On further analysis, it was found that when passwd is changed, algorithm information is also associated with encrypted passwd. So LPA is not an issue as mentioned in the RFE
- customer was using the following command
#echo "amit:{ssha512}06$yZQb.T04eYO1JeC6$rN3jWQW1hK.4FNdDUwIEAT5QpcbsIa57pShsvvFcTuCuJp19Zuucp/zOiNLRS.KYrzlOmbEZ9dyyZxNoIgu/.." |chpasswd -e
Though above command succeeds but passwd encrypted string will get corrupted in the /etc/security/passwd file. Since "$" in the encrypted passwd string is interpreted as shell metacharater by the shell [ Expand the value of a variable ],
Use one of the following way to make it work
1. put "\" before the "$" in the above command then shell will not interpret it.
#echo "amit:{ssha512}06\$yZQb.T04eYO1JeC6\$rN3jWQW1hK.4FNdDUwIEAT5QpcbsIa57pShsvvFcTuCuJp19Zuucp/zOiNLRS.KYrzlOmbEZ9dyyZxNoIgu/.." |chpasswd -e
2. copy user and passwd in a file (say pass.txt) then run the following command, it will work
#cat pass.txt |chpasswd -e
Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #91182 in product IBM AIX.