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Description of problem:
The 'passwd' command displays 'Changing password for $user' twice.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to Rhel 6 desktop.

2. Type 'passwd'.

[tester@dhcp231-173 ~]$ passwd
Changing password for user tester.
Changing password for tester.
(current) UNIX password: 
  
Actual results:
'Changing password for $user' displayed twice.

Ray Strode took a brief look at this,  "/usr/bin/passwd | grep "Chaning password" shows it has the "Changing password for user" string. Individual pam modules have the second string.

Expected results:
'Changing password for $user' should be displayed once.

[tester@dhcp231-173 ~]$ passwd
Changing password for user tester.
(current) UNIX password: 

Additional info:

Cosmetic issue and no regression from RHEL-5.

Version-Release number of selected component:
passwd-0.77-4.el6

And it is really questionable where this should be changed, but most probably the message from the PAM module should be removed rather than the passwd message.

The question is if that couldn't break other things that call PAM password changing routines such as expired password handling in ssh or login.

I'm closing WONTFIX for RHEL-6. I'll clone it for Fedora so we can fix it for RHEL-7.