16.04, latest LTS, but just ran into this bug. The strength meter says "Strong", but the "Change" button remains greyed out. The only way to change your password on this LTS, ridiculously, is to use a terminal!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1318199 Title: Can't change password Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When attempting to change my password since update to 14.04, the Change button is disabled. The UI claims my password is "Not good enough", probably because it's not complex according to it's rules. Choosing a different password with difference characters seems to work cause this to change and the button enables. While it's perfectly reasonable and useful to for the OS to provide feedback on its opinion of password quality, it is my view that it's not appropriate for the a personal computer to over-rule the decisions of its user with respect to password choices. For this reason, and that it's a change in behaviour since the previous version, I think this should be treated as a bug. It's possible to change the password with "passwd". ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140410-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sat May 10 16:32:51 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-control-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-07 (367 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-28 (12 days ago) usr_lib_unity-control-center: activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu14 deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4 gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1318199/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
