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Please check your terminal settings and even your hardware. Given the huge number of installations and the age of the distribution, such a problem would have been reported a very very long time ago. [wolfy@wolfy ~]$ sudo passwd x Changing password for user x. New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. |
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It might have been reported a long time ago but maybe not. For most instantiations I think, the work around of using "stty icrnl" fixes it because most input works with either a cr or nl. In my case, the CR is treated differently in some of our applications so that work around doesn't help. There's also the case that everything else works with the enter key. Only the passwd program has the issue. It's obviously using a different input function that the rest of the system. That may be by design because someone somewhere needed special characters for a password that the normal input would restrict. I don't know if that's the case but passwd does work differently than the other programs and the fact that it doesn't work with the CR is it think, a bug. It's a bug that is not present on other distributions I've used. |
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- Anonymous
