Can't add new user in lucid

[Colin Law]

On 26 March 2010 15:03, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

No problem booting off the live cd and creating users, so I guess it
must be something to do with something I have done or installed.  I am
not aware of fiddling with any authorisation related stuff.

Colin

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> Colin
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