From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; H010818) Description of problem: In the Red Hat User Manager, when I create a new user with this tool, the passwords act strange. I can log out, and login with the new username, and here is what happens: The password I entered for the new user, user1, was GH543en1! The first time I logged in, I accidentally forgot the ! at the end, thus I only typed 8 of the 9 characters as GH543en1, but I was allowed to login! The 2nd time I logged in, I typed it correctly as GH543en1!, and was allowed to login as expected. Then, I tried to login as user1 with password as GH543en1!asdf;iolh (or any other random sequence beyond the GH543en1) and I was able to login. BTW, when I changed the password at the command line, no problem, solid as a rock. Everything at login acted as expected, no random characters allowed, etc. MD5 was enabled as it is by default during installation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
I'm seeing this also. Noticed it during my RHCE class today on a 8.0 system, and it's still the same with the latest from rawhide/RHL 9 Another thing that's kindof strange is that doing this: - useradd foobar - change full name in redhat-config-users - use 'chage -M 2 foobar' to set password expiry gives the user no warning about the expiry but using 'useradd -c "Full Name" foobar; chage -M 2 foobar' will make it pop up the warning on login. Seems like there's some discrepancies when it comes to gui behaving the same as the command line tools.
dmcdowell, I'm not seeing this behavior with redhat-config-users-1.1.5-7, which is what shipped with RHL 9. Please reopen this bug if you still see this behavior with the new version. Kjartan, are you sure you're seeing the exact same problem with 1.1.5-7?