should pw(8) accept spaces/tabs in passwords?

[Alexey Neyman]

Hello,

I was just asked why the passwd(1) utility allows to set up a password 
containing spaces and tabs, and the adduser(8) script does not: the password 
is stripped of anything past a space or a tab. E.g., "my password" turns into 
"my". It turned out that it's pw(8) utility that does such stripping; the 
attached patch makes it behave consistently with passwd(1).

Regards,
Alexey.

P.S. Shouldn't passwd(1) be just a suid-wrapper for pw(8)? Are there any 
security implications for this?

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