RE: [webmin-l] Change Password error

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There is another way it could happen - but I will deal with that in Webmin 1.270. =A0- Jamie On 15/Feb/2006 03:15 Dave Isaacs wrote ..
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<p><font size=3D"2">In my case the password is NOT blank (I am trying to change the password of the user I am currently logged in as).=A0 Could there be another problem?</font></p>

<p><font size=3D"2">Thanks</font>
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<p><font size=3D"2">Dave I</font>
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Hi Dave,
 Thanks, I see the cause of this problem now ... it can happen if changing the password of a user whose password is currently blank. The next release of Webmin will fix it though.

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<p><font size=3D"2">From:=A0 Dave Isaacs &lt;dav...@en...&gt;</font>
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=A0=A0=A0=A0 RE: [webmin-l] Change Password error
 =A0=A0=A0 I am using the standard Change Password (passwd) module that is packaged with Webmin 1.260. 
 =A0 Thanks 
 =A0 Dave I 
 =A0 -----Original Message----- 
 From: web...@li... [<a href=3D"_unsafe_link_">mailto:web...@li...</a>] On Behalf Of Jamie Cameron

=A0 Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 4:56 AM 
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 =A0 Hi Dave, 
 That looks like a bug in Webmin. 
 Which module are you doing the password change in though? It seems that the caller of unix_crypt is passing in the wrong parameters.

=A0 - Jamie 
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 =A0 From: Dave Isaacs dav...@en... 
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 =A0Previously, whenI was using the Webmin 1.230 (on RedHat EL3)passwd module, there were no problems. 
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 Now, using the Webmin 1.250 version, I get the error Failed to change password : Failed to encrypt password :. 
 &nbsp;
 Looking at web-funcs-lib.pl, at the unix_crypt() subroutine, I can see that if the call to crypt() fails, then Crypt::UnixCrypt is used instead. Indeed, in my case the

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 $rv =3D eval crypt(\$pass, \$salt); 
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 call is resulting in $rv being undef. The fallback to Crypt::UnixCrypt does not work because I do not have that perl module installed.

&nbsp;
 Now my question is: why is the call to crypt() failing? It was not failing previously. Doing a little digging, I discovered the when the failure occurs, $pass is equal to the old password and $salt is equal to undef. Without salt, crypt() appears to return nothing. Why is the salt undef?

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 Thanks 
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 Dave Isaacs 
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