Bug#448754: /usr/bin/htpasswd: please give batchable option

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

htpasswd is missing a feature there to get the password from a file 
descriptor.

What the manpage means is probably that one should use -b only when 
necessary. From a shell script the use of -b might be acceptable 
because the password will not be put into .bash_history and htpasswd 
runs only for a very short time (so it's difficult to get the 
password with ps).

A real workaround would be to feed the password to htpasswd with socat 
(search for ssh in the socat man page for an example), but this is 
IMHO not suitable for a postinst because of the added dependency.

Cheers,
Stefan