[PATCH][1/2] hal-luks-setup-linux: fix/cleanup password handling

[David Zeuthen]

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 20:20 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> this patch remove unused sanitizing of the password in the linux 
> hal-liks-setup script. Sanitize the password is not needed and reduce the 
> strength of strong passwords if used. 
> 
> Also added changed usage of the password within "" to prevent the shell from 
> performing word splitting and pathname expansion.

Looks good to me; I was paranoid about the following

 #!/bin/sh
 read foo
 echo $foo

and the caller passing in e.g. 

 `echo owned | passwd --stdin root`

but it seems this attack is not really possible yes? I couldn't
reproduce it anyway so if you agree go ahead and commit it please.
Thanks.

      David