[pkg-fso-maint] install.sh and chpasswd error: No password supplied

[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:11:08 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> Since this morning I am now getting the following new error, even with a
> plain install.sh [1]:
> =====
>  * /etc/network/interfaces copied from this machine
>  * /etc/resolv.conf copied from this machine
>  * Setting empty root password
> No password supplied
> No password supplied
> No password supplied
> chpasswd: (user root) pam_chauthtok() failed, error:
> Authentication token manipulation error
> chpasswd: (line 1, user root) password not changed
> Command exited with non-zero status 1
> =====

As I suggested at [2], the "problem" is related to PAM, specifically it
is a result of bug #525153 [3]: indeed, chpasswd from passwd_4.1.3.1-1
works without any error.

Possible solutions:

1) we modify /etc/pam.d/chpasswd to allow empty passwords

2) we set a default password (e.g. "changeme")

My preference goes for the second point, since the first one creates
even more differences WRT a default Debian installation and moreover
empty passwords are a bad choice by design.  Any comments?

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

> Footnotes: 
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2009-May/001201.html
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525153
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