

There’s also no livepatches from Ubuntu Pro, and I thought this was the whole idea of livepatches, to patch critical bugs before you have a chance to update the kernel.
This also isn’t the first time I’ve been annoyed at Ubuntu’s response time. Luckily I mostly run Debian, but I certainly won’t be using Ubuntu for anything else in the future.



Nah the hash function gives up after 256 bytes and outputs
*, matching the ‘hash’.Edit: it’s unix tradition to put
*as the hash for system accounts that should never be able to be logged in, this bug now means you can login (with the right config), using any password longer than 256 characters.