Comment 33 for bug 272232

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 272232] Re: passwd - passwords do not match but updated successfully

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:02:12AM -0000, wire_transfer wrote:
> $ egrep -v '#|^$' /etc/pam.d/common-password # removing '#' and empty lines
> password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure sha512
> password requisite pam_deny.so
> password required pam_permit.so

I'm afraid this is the one case we can't fix for intrepid because it depends
on the internals of how libpam calculates return values and can't be changed
without a *lot* of testing.

The cases where users have more than one password module installed, however,
should now be fixed.

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