Can't add new user in lucid

[Colin Law]

On 26 March 2010 13:47, Fred Roller <fred at fwrgallery.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2010 09:21 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 26 March 2010 13:18, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/26/2010 06:53 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>>> I seem to have found a bug in lucid but it is so basic that I hesitate
>>>> to report it in case I just being stupid.
>>>>
>>>> I created a new user using System Administration Users and Groups but
>>>> am unable to login as that user.  I get an authentication error.  I
>>>> have tried creating several users and have double checked passwords
>>>> but to no avail.
>>>>
>>>> In auth.log I see
>>>> piglet gdm-session-worker[2554]: pam_winbind(gdm:auth): request
>>>> wbcLogonUser failed: WBC_ERR_AUTH_ERROR, PAM error: PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
>>>> (10), NTSTATUS: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER, Error message was: No such
>>>> user
>>>>
>>>> In addition in what may be a related or separate bug if I try to
>>>> change the password of the user fred using
>>>> sudo passwd fred
>>>> I get
>>>> passwd: System err
>>>> and in auth.log
>>>> Mar 26 12:50:28 piglet sudo:   colinl : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/colinl ;
>>>> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/passwd fred
>>>> Mar 26 12:50:28 piglet passwd[2666]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok):
>>>> valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND
>>>>
>>>> I can't find either of these in launchpad.
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>         If you need me to try your bug in my Lucid I will try to do what you
>>> did.
>>>
>>>
>> That would be helpful, thanks
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
> created a user and was able to log in.  your password is only 4
> characters long.  before there used to be a requirement for at least 6
> characters (i think) and the bug seems to be that is let you create the
> user with the short password and as a consequence another sub system may
> be confused.  have you tried lengthening the password to >6 characters?
> just a thought.

In case it is a factor I tried with a longer user name testtest with
the testtest for password and still unable to login as the new user.

I also tried adding a user in the terminal and got:

$ sudo adduser testing
[sudo] password for colinl:
Adding user `testing' ...
Adding new group `testing' (1005) ...
Adding new user `testing' (1005) with group `testing' ...
Creating home directory `/home/testing' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
passwd: System error
passwd: password unchanged
Try again? [y/N]

If no-one else is seeing this I wonder what is the issue with my setup.

I will try booting off live CD and adding user

Colin