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  1. Bug #303515
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 303515

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 303515] Re: passwd indicates password updated although it wasn't

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:09:14PM -0000, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> Here is an example. The new example password could not be set by the
> user, because the password has already been used:

> $ passwd
> Changing password for user1.
> Old Password:
> New Password:
> Password has been used already. Choose another.
> New Password:
> Password has been used already. Choose another.
> New Password:
> Control-C

This transcript doesn't match your stated PAM configuration. These are not
the messages printed by the pam_unix module on a password change.

> This behavior is ok. But now I try to change the password for the same
> user als root:

> $ sudo -i
> # passwd user1
> Enter new UNIX password:
> Retype new UNIX password:
> passwd: password updated successfully

> The problem is that "passwd" reports a successful password change, but
> the old password is still used.

That's an unrelated issue; please file a new bug report.

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