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[Roni Väyrynen <1979065@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#set-
passwords

Documentation explains three different ways of setting user password
using chpasswd but doesn't mention that they would otherwise work any
differently from one another. Passwords should by default be expired if
not specifically set otherwise in chpasswd. Although if one sets the
password as hash either in password or chpasswd list,
cc_set_passwords.py skips passwd --expire <username> completely which
doesn't match documented behaviour.

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-
init/blob/728098325657cb2fec559cf321ccd5235e786381/cloudinit/config/cc_set_passwords.py#L260

This part only applies to users which had either plain text password or
random password set.

** Affects: cloud-init
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  cc_set_passwords does not expire users if password given as hash

Status in cloud-init:
  New

Bug description:
  https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#set-
  passwords

  Documentation explains three different ways of setting user password
  using chpasswd but doesn't mention that they would otherwise work any
  differently from one another. Passwords should by default be expired
  if not specifically set otherwise in chpasswd. Although if one sets
  the password as hash either in password or chpasswd list,
  cc_set_passwords.py skips passwd --expire <username> completely which
  doesn't match documented behaviour.

  https://github.com/canonical/cloud-
  init/blob/728098325657cb2fec559cf321ccd5235e786381/cloudinit/config/cc_set_passwords.py#L260

  This part only applies to users which had either plain text password
  or random password set.

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