On Feb 5, 2008 10:19 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 10.10 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: > > So, is the problem that it's not asking you to enter the password > > again if it's a weak password? > > It doesn't ask also the first passwd.
This is normal when you're running passwd as root, I think. If you add a user then run passwd as that user, I think you will be prompted for the current password. # useradd foo # su -c "passwd" foo I had a look at the shadow source, and it seems that the messages for "New password: " and "Re-enter new password: " are not making it to the screen. These should be printed when calling the function getpass(). Reading the getpass(3) manpage, it seems that /dev/tty is used for sending the messages and receiving the password. Do you have the /dev/tty device? Can you show the permissions? > > 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 > > Same thing as above. That seems consistent with getpass() not working. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
