conflicting result while failing to change password as root
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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shadow (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: passwd
This is an issue using the passwd command in Ubuntu 8.10
It covers the case where you, as the root user, tries to change a password, but you fail to retype it correctly.
Passwd behaves correctly in it not actually changing the password. Stil, it kind of says it does.
root@hawat:~# passwd
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
Sorry, passwords do not match
passwd: password updated successfully
root@hawat:~# passwd andreas
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
Sorry, passwords do not match
passwd: password updated successfully
This is not a problem if you run passwd a normal user.
(Still failing to retype the new password)
andreas@hawat:~$ passwd
Changing password for andreas.
(current) UNIX password:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
Sorry, passwords do not match
passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered
passwd: password unchanged
Thanks for your report. This is the same as bug 303515; yours was reported first, actually, but I'll mark this one as the duplicate since I've already set the proper status on the other one.