[Bug 490093] Re: Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools)
About the hang problem: do you get the hang even when the new password is completely different from the old one? I thought we were always using strong encryption methods that did not have the problem you describe (which occurred when using 3DES). ** Summary changed: - Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools) + [users-admin] Password is reset to old value when it's been changed using about-me -- [users-admin] Password is reset to old value when it's been changed using about-me https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 490093] Re: Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools)
A small update: I triead again to change my pass yesterday, and I can't even using About Me. It just hangs when I type the new one 2 times. I believe it's because my new password is just the old one plus a new string of characters, so when I try to change it via passwd, it rejects it reporting Bad: new password must be different than the old one. -- Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 490093] Re: Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools)
Now I can see what's the problem. You shouln't have to authenticate when closing the first dialog. If it does so, that's because it wants to commit your user configuration - and since there are two separate programs here, the first one (users-admin) overwrites the changes that were made since it was started. Though I'd have thought it is more clever than that, and should ask you to reload the configuration from system files. The easiest fix I can think of would be to close the first dialog after changing the password. You may lose changes you could have made there, but that's not very likely that you first edited other settings. Thanks for catching the /etc/shadow funny behavior, that really saves us much debugging. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 490093] Re: Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools)
I can confirm this behavior. Below are more specific steps to reproduce it. 1. Open Users and Groups 2. Select your user and choose properties 3. Click change password After following through with the steps to change your password here the /etc/shadow file shows the change 4. Click OK to close out of the Account 'username' Properties dialog box. After you authenticate with the dialog box that opens, your password will revert to the original. The /etc/shadow file is rewritten with the original hash. NOTE: If you click Cancel instead of OK to leave the Account 'username' Properties dialog box the /etc/shadow file does not revert to the original. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
