Bug#448754: /usr/bin/htpasswd: please give batchable option

htpasswd is missing a feature there to get the password from a file descriptor.

What the manpage means is probably that one should use -b only when necessary. From a shell script the use of -b might be acceptable because the password will not be put into .bash_history and htpasswd runs only for a very short time (so it's difficult to get the password with ps).

A real workaround would be to feed the password to htpasswd with socat (search for ssh in the socat man page for an example), but this is IMHO not suitable for a postinst because of the added dependency.

Cheers,
Stefan

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