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jbwillia
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 Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject: passwd failing on newly emerged system |
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I run passwd and the second I hit a key to start off my password it says
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New UNIX password:
BAD PASSWORD: it's WAY too short
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
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I don't get it; I've never seen this before. I'm getting a little discouraged by Gentoo to be honest.  |
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andrewy
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 12:42 am Post subject: Re: passwd failing on newly emerged system |
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| jbwillia wrote: | I run passwd and the second I hit a key to start off my password it says
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I'm not sure what you said there, can you reword it? |
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GenTimJS
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 3:50 am Post subject: |
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your password is only 4 letters long or something.
it still LETS you use a silly insecure password, but just warns you how much of a bad idea it is ....
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 4:37 am Post subject: |
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ok; I don't think anyone understood what I meant. I was trying to say that say for instance my password were "gentoo2004" .... right when I push the 'g' key it responds with
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then it asks me to retype it so I push 'g' again and it mysteriously says that password has been updated successfully. However if I pushed g the first time, got confused as to why it jumped ahead like that and tried say to use a 'd' as in for instance "debian2004" then it says the passwords do not match.
For some odd reason it's taking single character entries without me pushing <enter>. I don't get it, I've never seen passwd do this before. |
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hardave
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| It's a known bug. No one has been quite able to figure out what causes it yet. It's been pretty random so far. You can get around it by just using a single character password, it'll accept it, then change it once you boot into you system, it should let you. I believe it has something to do with tty settings being changed. One time I was able to run to clear my terminal, then passwd worked fine. Give it a try, if that fails, just change your password once you boot up. |
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 6:06 am Post subject: thank you |
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thank you very much ... it works perfectly after i ran you are the the man hardave. You were also much help on the -m64 issue in a previous thread. You've just saved a new Gentoo user  .... I was this -->)(<-- close to starting over with Debian.  |
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