This is fun, theses two CEO of theses big companies are dog fighting each others :
Dave post:
http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html
Johanthan answer:
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling
but the real (fake) truth about that post is here :
http://fakeschwartz.blogspot.com/2007/09/bring-it-cowboy.html
I tend to believe more NetAPP in this case, just because i don’t know how many time i have sweared on that bloody ps -aux [...]

If you want to generate properly encrypted password to feed to chpasswd, the most easier and proper way is to do that from command line :
[code lang="bash"]
echo "encryptedpassword"|openssl passwd -1 -stdin
[/code]
If you want to generate in pure python you can do it like that :
[code lang="python"]
def md5crypt(password, salt, magic='$1$'):
[...]

Remind to myself to use the switch -64 on solaris with crle to tell
the linker on solaris to get the linker ’seeing’ 64 libraries.
I wonder why everything is not as simple as linux thought where we
have everything in one place with /etc/ld.so.config