conflicting result while failing to change password as root

[Andreas Olsson]

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

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

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.