Bug#212872: [Adduser-devel] Bug#212872: passwd: adduser should ask for password again if there is a mismatch

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Sat Nov 25 14:41:51 CET 2006


This one time, at band camp, Thorsten Gunkel said:
> On [Sat, 25.11.2006 02:18], Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Thorsten Gunkel said:
> > > I just tried to add a test user in a fresh sid debootstrap and had a typo in
> > > the re-typed password:
> > > | Enter new UNIX password: 
> > > | Retype new UNIX password: 
> > > | Sorry, passwords do not match
> > > | passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered
> > > | passwd: password unchanged
> > > | Undefined subroutine &main::NOEXPR called at /usr/sbin/adduser line 509, <FIND> line 4.
> 
> > I think I've got the problem fixed.  I have applied the patch below in
> > svn - can you test to make sure it fixes it for you?
> 
> I changed the lines in the current unstable version and I seems to work
> without problems:
> ,----
> | Sorry, passwords do not match
> | passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered
> | passwd: password unchanged
> | Try again? [Y/n] y

Great.

Marc, do you think we should try to push for this to go into etch?
There are no string changes, as this part is untranslated, and it seems
like a reasonably important bugfix to me.
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