removing login password prompt deletes password [$50]

[Simon Esposito]

I went to the accounts settings and selected the option "none" for password in the access options (I'm using the system in Italian and I'm translating, these might not be the exact terms in english, sorry for that) for my account. I saved, and now I don't have root access. I tried su and sudo with my old password and with an empty password and nothing seems to work. I also tried to go into recovery mode to change the password but I can't. This is kind of a big problem, I now have to reinstall elementary to fix this, as it seems that something happend to the root password and no password seems to work now. I had the same password for login and root, if that matters.

[Dany Menko (menko-dany425)]

had to manually edit /etc/shadow http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35929/how-can-we-change-root-password to undo the damage

[Peter Alabaster (peteralabaster)]

I just experienced this bug, changed password to none, then could no longer access sudo in terminal or unlock my account to change password. The action to unlock user account is org.freedesktop.accounts.user-administration

[Hristo Hristov (hri100v)]

I am experiencing the same problem.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/33265450-removing-login-password-prompt-deletes-password

[Rubén Reina (ruben-reina-dev)]

I have proposed a tested fix by uploading this branch:

https://code.launchpad.net/~ruben-reina-dev/switchboard-plug-useraccounts/delete-user-password-fix/+merge/298379

The password field will never be 'None' again so the superuser account will not be broken for the edited user. Superuser account (su) should always have a password for security reasons.

Thank you.