<strong>Report forwarded</strong> to <code>debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@debian.org&gt;</code>:<br>
<code>Bug#7614</code>; Package <code>poppassd</code>.


debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgChristoph Lameter &lt;clameter@debian.org&gt;

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:25:43 -0400
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From: "Eloy A. Paris" <peloy@ven.ra.rockwell.com>
Subject: passwd program hangs when invoked by poppassd
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Package: poppassd
Version: 1.2-4

To get poppassd working under Debian 1.2, I had to change the P2 string in
line 184 of poppassd.c from:

"enter new password: "

to:

"changing password for *\nenter new password: "

This fixes the problem of getting the poppassd program hung while waiting
for passwd to finish execution (passwd hangs forever waiting for "enter new
password: " because it receives "changing password for *\nenter new
password: " instead.)

Finally, there are problems when the user types an invalid password (less
than 6 chars. or without both numbers and letters). To solve this I execute
the passwd command with the -o option (I pass the extra option "-o" to the
execl() function call), to force any password typed to be valid. I do not
know how to fix poppassd to work without doing this. The problem seems to
be that the passwd program is too picky and behaves very interactively (too
much, I would say.)

I am using Debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.29.

Regards,

Eloy.-


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