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!
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The same thing happens with Ubuntu 16.04 - the change password dialog
still says "Not good enough". Look, this is ridiculous! I'm fine with
the O/S informing me that in its opinion my password is not
cryptographically strong, but really it's my decision, not the GUI's
decision.
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For me no matter what password I enter in the password change dialog,
even if the strength meter says "Strong", the "Change" button is always
disabled. So this dialog is completely broken for me.
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This is a terrible bug, as I type my password it enabled the Change
button, meaning its good enough. But as I finish typing my password the
button disabled again and says the password "Is not good enough". Its
essentially telling me the password is too long!
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This is caused by libpam-pwquality using the cracklib defaults for the
dictionary file, and not having cracklib-runtime installed with the
default cracklib dictionary of /usr/share/dict/cracklib-small. libpam-
pwquality should probably Depends: on cracklib-runtime
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Observed the same, couldn't create/add a new user. The hint for the
strength switches directly from "too short" to "not good enough" and
stays there no matter how complex or long the password is.
@johnaaronsore: Set password with `passwd` (as you did) and remove the
user from the group nopasswdlog
It's even worse now than when reported. Trying passwords containing
upper case character(s), lower case character(s), numbers & special
character such as ! does not enable the Change button. Also, using sudo
passwd userid allows me to change the password from a non-passworded
account but does not a
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1318199
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Can't change password
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