I think that was meant to be a reply to me, so I'll respond.
Technically, /etc/passwd can have encrypted passwords in it, but as far as I'm aware, no distro has done that in decades, so realistically its not that risky. It does expose the user names though.
Can you share the lines from /etc/passwd for your user and the user your adding? Despite its name, there are no passwords here, that is in /etc/shadow
Edit: can you su to login as the user?
Don't windows-shame me!
I prefer to think of it as an open relationship. I have my home distro, my work distro, and if either of them aren't in the mood, there is an wide variety of other distros to get the job done.
And if I'm feeling really kinky, there's always Windows.
I think it perfectly highlights what can happen when the risk/severity is blown out of proportion. People will latch on to that and waste precious time and energy defending that.
If the original guy had just published "CUPS has a RCE, firewall it if you haven't already", the issue would have been patched in the next release, and the world would have kept turning.
It was a really cool bug, and a great find, it didn't need the hype
Didn't know that, but makes sense.
if you are from Russia, it is impossible to convince the US that you are not a part of a state-sponsored entity
This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.
Excellent, thanks for the update!
Pfft, thats an easy one to solve, just make it illegal it miscarry. Next!
Do I need /s?
Russians can still contribute, they just can't be direct maintainers.
Nothing will likely change in the short term.
"Group policy me harder, babe"