Topic: Change user password

[carnaud]

I'm experiencing some pb when I try to change the password of an user with the user-password manager.

I always get the message:

Rapport d'état de l'opération
Une erreur s'est produite pendant la modification de votre mot de passe. Veuillez vous assurer de l'exactitude de l'ancien mot de passe tapé.
'
That means approximatively:
Operation status:
An error occured during the password change, please check the old password'



and the following message is written in httpd/admin_error_log
 
[Fri Aug 17 07:49:31 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Failed to set Unix password for account toto: Authentication token manipulation error, referer: https://server01/user-password


I'm sure of the old password, I've resetted it many times

Thank you for your help

[mmccarn]

There is a known problem in the user-panel password update process in all versions of SME prior to 7.2.

If you can't update to 7.2 for some reason, you could try to find and up date only the one package involved.

Even after you update user passwords need to meet your complexity requirements.  If you have set passwordstrenght to "none" you still need to specify a password at least 6 characters long.

It looks from this bug as though the offending rpm is e-smith-base: http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2686

Here's another discussion about it on bugzilla: http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3039