[27395] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Thu Dec 3 08:59:11 2009
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To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:58:55 EST."
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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:58:55 -0500
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
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I can, however, reproduce it on another Intrepid machine:
zygorthian-space-raiders:~> passwd
Current Kerberos password:
Enter new Kerberos password:
Retype new Kerberos password:
Passwords don't match
passwd: password updated successfully
zygorthian-space-raiders:~>
So, it's not Laura's account, and it's not Laura's machine.
Mitch
> Interesting. I was unable to reproduce this on a Debathena Jaunty machine:
>
> kid-icarus:~ broder$ passwd
> Current Kerberos password:
> Enter new Kerberos password:
> Retype new Kerberos password:
> Passwords don't match
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
> passwd: password unchanged
>
> Although it looks like dale is running Debathena Intrepid (8.10), the
> PAM configuration should be identical between those two versions, so
> I'm not sure what the difference there would be.
>
> - Evan
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, <boojum@mit.edu> wrote:
> > System name: DALE
> > Type: i686
> > Display type: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Co
> ntroller (rev 04)
> >
> > Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh (?)
> > Window manager: unknown
> >
> > What were you trying to do?
> > Change my password using "passwd"
> >
> > What's wrong:
> > If I type mismatched passwords, it tells me:
> >
> > Passwords don't match
> > passwd: password updated successfully
> >
> > (It does not, in fact, update my password).
> >
> > What should have happened:
> >
> > It shouldn't say "password updated successfully".
> >
> >
>
