[Bug 78374] Re: user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten

[sebas]

On Monday 08 January 2007 10:49, Cimmo wrote:
> passwords are all read when you come in the users list or when you double
> click in a user to change its properties?
>
> If the one so ok to your answer, if second then I still think this is a
> bug.

We cannot 'read' the password at any time, it's not saved in plain text (or 
decryptable anywhere, and that would be a security issue anyway).

The thing is that it's just *not* supported to use two applications for 
dealing with the same (in this context userconfig and passwd) simultaneously. 
Just don't do that.
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user password is not read every time you open an user, results in password overwritten
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78374