On Feb 5, 2008 10:40 AM, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2007-January/032257.html > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2007-April/032858.html
This is in jhalfs? Ah, now I'm even more convinced that this is some sort of environment problem where /dev/tty isn't working correctly. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
