Ubuntu :: Can't Change Password From GUI
Apr 1, 2010
I think this is a bug but I wanted some feedback from the community before going to launchpad with this.
I had a new user call me up with a question on how he might change his password on his Ubuntu 9.10 system. I walked him through the steps of going to System->Administration->Users and Groups->Click on his user account->Properties->Change Password. Everything went well, but when he logged out and went to use his new password it clearly didn't reset the password. He had to use his old password to get into the system.
I verified it on my system as well - changing my password through the GUI does not actually change my password. The only way I was able to change it was through the passwd command, which is what I walked the user through.
So the question is: Is the GUI method (gnome/ubuntu) for changing one's password broken? Or did we miss something?
As a follow-up to this - it appears that changing a user's password through the command line with passwd does not change the password for gnome-keyring, which then asks the user for his/her password before NM can connect to wireless networks. The only password that this dialogue box will take is the user's old password - which could be really confusing to an end user.
Is there a better, more comprehensive way of changing one's password in Ubuntu that would update the keyring settings at the same time?
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Jan 8, 2010
hello i am trying to change my password, but when i type in the new password i get this:"The password is longer than 8 characters. On some systems, this can cause problems. You can truncate the password to 8 characters, or leave it as it is."my question is what kind of problem could i get and how can i change so i have to log in every time i start the computer?
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Mar 9, 2010
I'm really new to Linux so this will probably sound like a pretty naive question to most users, but how do you change the root password?To install Java, I have to type # su into Terminal,which then asks for the password.What's weird is that when I start typing a password, no characters show up. I don't know if this is supposed to happen or not.I've found a bunch of different sites on the Internet that explain how to change the root password, but none of them seem to work for my specific work station.
I've got Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. In the GRUB boot menu, I can choose to boot normal or in recovery mode (I'm led to believe older versions don't have this option).I've tried typing # sudo passwrd into Terminal, but I already have a root password set up apparently, so I can't change it there.
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Jun 14, 2011
everytime i try to vnc to my box, it pops up the keyring authentication, which is obviously a huge problem when logging in remotely.how do i change my keyring password to match my login password?
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Jul 25, 2011
I have a brand new install.I was doing some housekeeping and made a more sure password.Something went wonky and I got locked out.So I booted to root and changed the password.I'm back in the box now.But, my keyring password no longer matches my user password.So every time I want to do something I am asked for my old password.How do I change my keyring password to match my login password?
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Jan 13, 2010
How can I force passwd to use a simple password?I want to change my passwd & delete passwd history (if stored).I plan on creating a Virtual Appliance that uses another password besides my testing password.
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Nov 22, 2010
I work on a product that have to start automatically an application. Running Opensuse 11.2 So in the inittab I have : 1:2345:once:/root/Velox/VeloxBoot.sh 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
In the VeloxBoot.sh, if I don't press any key, my application starts after a timeout. If the user presses a key I want to have a login prompt. Unfortunately, if I start /bin/login, I have a prompt with login, but once I enter my login, it does not ask for a password and it says wrong password
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Mar 17, 2011
When I login to my laptop, there's a dialog that asks me for a password. When I fill that in, it allows the network manager to access my wifi password and connect to the wifi.How can I change the password that network manager is asking for? It's kinda awkward to ask this question - I am not asking how to change my wifi password, but the password that comes up - Seahorse? I'm not sure what's used on Lubuntu.
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Apr 14, 2010
Is there a way to change password to value same as the previous password? I know this is a security flaw, but would like to know however. when I try this:
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Jul 2, 2010
i forgot root password and how to change the password
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Jan 6, 2009
At the RHEL prompt, I entered the standard user's username/password combo. Linux displays a message box stating:"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator."Next, I entered "root" in the username field and entered the root password (which expired also--keep in mind that passwords are set to expire after x days). Linux displays a message box stating:"You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)."When prompted to "Enter current UNIX password", I entered the new password (was that the right thing to do?); Linux displays a message box stating:"The change of the authentication token failed. Please try again later or contact the system administrator."I rebooted the system and got into command line mode; somehow I logged in as "root" (don't know exactly how, but needed to change the password there). At the "#" prompt, I type "passwd root"; Linux displays the message "Changing password for user root", followed by the message "passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered.
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Dec 8, 2010
For some reason passwd does not accept my current password as the old password when i try to change my password with the command passwd. Im not sure whats wrong with whatever linux uses to handle passwords but I cant even change passwords with the root user account. Is there any way to fix both of these problems.
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Feb 16, 2011
On my linux machine, I've enforced a password expiry policy every 45 days. So, today when I tried to ssh to the host, I get the typical "WARNING: Your password has expired". Fine, no big deal. But when I enter my new password and confirm, instead of giving me a login prompt, it tells me passwd all auth tokens updated successfully, then next line, "Connection to <host> closed". I can re-ssh back into that host and all is well from here, but it's a nuisance having to go through the extra step. Is this something in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config somewhere or perhaps a PAM config issue?
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Jan 21, 2010
Such a simple question but no luck finding this answer in the forums or the internets.
How do I change my root ftp password via command line?
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Jun 22, 2010
I cant login into my account(my admin account) because for some reason the password is changed.I used ubuntu live cd and I chroot my ubuntu on the hd.I use "likewise" to login to ldap db and I remember I read somewhere that it can cause problems like this.I dont want to uninstall it and reconfigure it again.
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Jan 4, 2010
I'm new to ubuntu. Now iam using Karmic Koala. I want to change my password. So i used,
system->Administration->users and groups to change my password . As i entered my new password and clicked on 'Change Password', It is saying, 'password changed'. But when I click the close button in the main users and groups window, it is asking for my password, and I am forced to enter my old password only.
After the window is closed, i logout to check whether my password is changed. But it is not. I have to enter my old password to login.
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Jan 5, 2010
I've tried both the GUI and the terminal to change my user's password and both are failing. I'm running 9.10 with current updates.
In the GUI, I type in the current password and it recognises it. I then type in the new password twice. Upon clicking change password it hangs.
In the terminal I use "passwd". I type in current password. I then type in the new password twice, but an error of:
Code:
I've even changed the new password to another something different (with NO special characters), and it still fails.
Are there certain characters I should NOT have in a password, such as /#/ or /;/?
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Jan 10, 2010
I tried to change my password through the Users and Groups dialogue, and now neither the old one nor the new one work. I tried to do it once, and it didn't do anything (the password was still my old password), then the second time I did it, when I went to save the configuration it wouldn't take my new password or my old one. Now I can't authenticate for anything.
A wicked backdoor I've noticed is that going into recovery mode offers you a root console without authentication. (Awesome, Linux, secure as all ****, seriously.) Is there any way to use this to set my user password without needing to authenticate?
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Apr 8, 2010
On the live cd I put a dumb temporary password into keyring (not user password) not knowing it would keep the same password on finished install. How do I change this in Xubuntu 10.04?
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Jun 21, 2010
I recently changed my password, restarted my comp several times since then, and then today (roughly 23:30 est) i received an error message stating that my keyring password had changed since i last needed to use it. i dont know why it changed only the login pass and not the 'keyring' pass too. i cannot figure out how to actually change the keyring pass..this poses no actual problem, merely an inconvenience.
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Nov 27, 2010
Is it best to do this via the terminal or gui interface? does this meanthat the home folder encryption password is the same as the old login password?
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Dec 31, 2010
when I installed 10.10 I chose ask for password on login but I want to now just be on when I turn on the computer without asking for a password. how can I do this?
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Jul 26, 2011
I am on xubuntu 11.04. I want to change password for one n only user that is myself. How to change password? At the time of installation of xubuntu i put very simple password but now it may cause trouble to keep simple password so i want to change it.
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Apr 4, 2010
i want to change my root as well as user password in ubuntu 9.10...i tried it from users and groups under administration from system..but the changed password have not been taken..the old ones are still working.
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Jul 23, 2010
Iam unable to chang th root password in ubuntu. after sudoing,passwd it asks for the old password, thn th new password twice, but does not change it. What do i do?
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Jan 3, 2010
I recently gave my sister an extra laptop I had that has crunchbang and windoze 7 on it. Instead of having to reinstall and go thru updates I'd like to change the login name (her choosing) and the password (her choosing) so she can give linux a go.I don't know if I'm allowed to post this here because it's a security
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Jan 18, 2010
I recently decided to give linux a try on my personal machine. I work on a unix machine from time to time at work but am pretty much a novice with what I am doing on this laptop. I am running Ubuntu 9.10, I was trying to change the root password on my laptop but ran into the following:
charles@charles-laptop:~$ whoami
charles
charles@charles-laptop:~$ sudo password root
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Jan 23, 2010
I recently installed xscreensaver in order to change some settings on some of the screensavers I have. All is well until I lock the screen. I do not like the look of the password entry window. the one that came with the GTK2 theme I use looked great and I was wondering if there was a way to tell xscreensaver to use that one instead of the one that it uses by default. Also, whenever I restart my computer I have to open up xscreensaver and tell it to kill the gnome-screensaver daemon and then start the xscreensaver one. Is there a way to automate this process?
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Mar 11, 2010
I recently decided to try and change my admin password on my usual default account (the one you have to type in, in order to do sudo e.t.c im guessing)a the user account option...and having entered my previous password correctly,t will not allow me to enter a new password, it just seems to hang, (i.e the working icon appears, but having waited a minute or twwo nothing seems to of happened..(cannot press the confirm button). Is there a way to reset the password so that i can set a new one, if i cannot change my own admin password, and i was working on a windows system, i would be screaming system compromise right now, but as its ubuntu, im sure theres a perfectly innocent explantion
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Apr 16, 2010
After today's sudo upgrade on Karmic amd64, I am able to login only as root on my xubuntu system. Tried to change password on my user account but the result is the same.
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