password change does not work in command line
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Raspbian |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When trying to change my password through the command line, it acts as normal. However, once I rebooted the system and tried to log in, the password was rejected. Instead, the previous password still worked instead of the new one, despite it reporting the password had been updated successfully.
I used 'sudo passwd'. After typing in the new password, and retyping it, it displayed 'passwd: password updated successfully'. I am using Raspbian Buster Lite, (Linux raspberrypi 5.4.51-v7+ #1333 SMP Mon Aug 10 16:45:19 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux). It is interesting to note that while the password change does not work in the command line, if it is done through the configuration settings using 'raspi-config' it works as intended consistantly. I am using a Raspberry Pi 3B.
It is important to note as well that SSH still worked with the old password, even though it said it had updated the password successfully. I ended up being able to SSH in with default password 'raspberry'.
