| Summary: | password reset mode of chntpw does nothing | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stephane Adenot <stephane> |
| Component: | chntpw | Assignee: | Conrad Meyer <cse.cem+redhatbugz> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | cse.cem+redhatbugz |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-12-19 01:46:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Fixed and building in rawhide here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3591818 F16: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3591830 F15: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3591832 chntpw-0.99.6-17.110511.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chntpw-0.99.6-17.110511.fc15 chntpw-0.99.6-17.110511.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chntpw-0.99.6-17.110511.fc16 chntpw-0.99.6-17.110511.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. chntpw-0.99.6-17.110511.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: Using chntpw for clearing a Windows password does nothing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): chntpw-0.99.6-16.110511 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. chntpw -u <user> <sam file> 2. select menu item 1 (clear user password) 3. type "y" (write sam file) Actual results: User password not cleared, sam file unchanged Expected results: User password should have been cleared Additional info: This is due to a bug introduced by a patch named "chntpw-110511-robustness.patch". Here is the patch to correct the above patch: diff -r -U 3 chntpw-110511/ntreg.c chntpw-110511.new/ntreg.c --- chntpw-110511/ntreg.c 2011-11-21 14:42:45.369173605 +0100 +++ chntpw-110511.new/ntreg.c 2011-11-21 14:43:38.045876946 +0100 @@ -197,7 +197,10 @@ len = strlen(ibuf); if (len) + { ibuf[len-1] = 0; + --len; + } return len; }