"Users and groups" manager creates invalid password (amd64 specific!)

[Daniel Hahler]

The password that gets set with the "users and groups" utility (from the System menu) will not be the password you
expect. It does not match the one you've typed into!

Result: unknown password!

Don't try reproducing this with an account you need to login with again!

You can change the password fine with the KDE utility or "passwd".

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

When you experience this problem you should use the "recovery boot" option, with which you'll be able to reset your password by typing
'passwd <username>'.
(sorry <tremblay>, you've left #ubuntu to early).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that works fine here. Do you have a password with special chars?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

have you tried it on amd64? It got confirmed in #ubuntu and I can reproduce it too (on hoary(-preview) and breezy).. plain chars, not
even z/y issues.

[Paul Phillips (paul-gs-phillips)]

Found the same thing. I could specify a manual password, which it would
supposedly accept, but then obviously ignore. I could select to autogenerate a
random password - again, it ignores this. If you add a user, then restart the
users and groups tool and look at the password - it is always reset to manual
(irrespective of previous setting) and password always has eight characters
(again irrespective of what was there before) and no way of finding out what it
has been set to.

As has been noted, workaround is to set password through root terminal or similar.

I'm running hoary on amd64.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I took the issue upstream: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316986

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This was fixed with Michaels upload.