Bug 135500 - userpasswd gives "Unknown error" if the password is incorrect
Summary: userpasswd gives "Unknown error" if the password is incorrect
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: usermode
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-13 03:43 UTC by petrosyan
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:02 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.80-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-05-11 12:34:50 UTC
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Description petrosyan 2004-10-13 03:43:25 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041012 Epiphany/1.4.4

Description of problem:
If a user tries to change his password via using userpasswd and
mistypes his current password, the program gives an "Unknown error."
dialog message.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
usermode-gtk-1.73-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to Main Menu / Preferences / Password
2. When prompted to enter the current UNIX password, intentionally
mistype it.
    

Actual Results:  "Unknown error" dialog appears.

Expected Results:  It should say that the user mistyped the current
UNIX password and offer another try.
Comment 1 petrosyan 2004-11-16 03:37:50 UTC 
this bug is still present in usermode-gtk-1.74-1
Comment 2 petrosyan 2005-05-11 01:14:27 UTC 
this bug is still present in usermode-gtk-1.79-2
Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2005-05-11 12:34:50 UTC 
This is now fixed since useermode-1.80-1.

The error was caused by the unhandled PAM_AUTHTOK_ERR error code.

Thanks.
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