Comment 0 for bug 302026

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Jakob SigurĂ°sson (jakobjs) wrote :

Binary package hint: likewise-open

After installing likewise-open on 8.10 I am unable to change any local passwords.
The latest updates have just been applied - some updates to libpam were included but did not fix the problem.

This appears only to be the case with users with empty passwords.

<code>
jakob@ubuntu:~$ passwd
Changing password for jakob.
(current) UNIX password:
^C
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
jakob@ubuntu:~$
jakob@ubuntu:~$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for jakob:
root@ubuntu:~# passwd
passwd: password updated successfully
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~# adduser testuser
Adding user `testuser' ...
[output cut]
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~#
root@ubuntu:~# passwd testuser
passwd: password updated successfully
root@ubuntu:~#

</code>

The passwd commands simply prints out that "password updated successfully" message then exits.