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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:02:12AM -0000, wire_transfer wrote:
> $ egrep -v '#|^$' /etc/pam.d/common-password       # removing '#' and empty lines
> password	[success=1 default=ignore]	pam_unix.so obscure sha512
> password	requisite			pam_deny.so
> password	required			pam_permit.so

I'm afraid this is the one case we can't fix for intrepid because it depends
on the internals of how libpam calculates return values and can't be changed
without a *lot* of testing.

The cases where users have more than one password module installed, however,
should now be fixed.

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passwd - passwords do not match but updated successfully
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272232
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “pam” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “shadow” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in ecryptfs-utils in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released
Status in pam in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released
Status in shadow in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: passwd

As root, if you attempt to change the password, and the passwords do not match you get "passwords do not match" and "password updated successfully".  It should only report "passwords do not match".  It shouldn't say "password updated sucessfully".  According to Synaptic the passwd package is at level "1:4.1.1-1ubuntu1".  This is on 8.10 Alpha 6.  Here's the output:

root@ehud:/# passwd
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
Sorry, passwords do not match
passwd: password updated successfully
root@ehud:/# lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release:	8.10
root@ehud:/#

This happens for normal users as well:

userX@ehud:~$ passwd
Changing password for userX.
(current) UNIX password: 
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
Sorry, passwords do not match
passwd: password updated successfully
userX@ehud:~$