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
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 wa
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
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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
