On Tue, Feb 05, at 10:10 Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008 9:55 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 06.02 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto:
> > > It sounds like something bad has happened. Can you run the command
> > > again as "LC_ALL=C passwd root"? I can't translate the Italian :)
> >
> > Same results:
> >
> > # LC_ALL=C passwd root
> > Changing password for root
> > Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 127 characters)
> > Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
> > Bad password: too short.
> > Warning: weak password (enter it again to use it anyway).
> > Password changed.
> > #
> 
> So, is the problem that it's not asking you to enter the password
> again if it's a weak password? That sounds like a bug. If so, can you
> see what happens if you try to change the password of a non-root user?
> 
> # useradd foo
> # passwd foo
> (enter a weak password)
> # userdel foo
> 
> That's not how passwd behaves for me, but I'm using PAM. It may be
> that the bug is only in the non-PAM codepath. I doubt this specific
> problem is locale related.
> 

I think is Jhalfs related but nobody figure out the cause.

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