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Bug 434539 - [users-admin] blank password not allowed
[users-admin] blank password not allowed
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-system-tools
Classification: Deprecated
Component: users-admin
2.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Carlos Garnacho
Carlos Garnacho
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-04-30 09:24 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2009-09-18 15:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-04-30 09:24:07 UTC 
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109647

"Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

The "User Settings" tool doesn't allow user to set a blank password.

Steps to reproduce:
*) System -> Administration -> User and Groups
or) gksu users-admin
*) Click on "New User" -> Leave the password fields blank -> OK

What happens: This dialog appears:
"Password is too short
User passwords must be longer than 6 characters and preferably formed by numbers, letters and special characters."

What should happen:
users-admin should let Richard Stallman create an account (at least with "Desktop user" and "Unprivileged" profiles) ;)
However, it should show a (red) message box under the text entry (maybe a web2.0-style box)

[GNOME version: 2.18.1 on Feisty]"
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2009-09-18 15:31:38 UTC 
Not a feature we want to support IMHO. We have password-less login for that. Moreover, our internal design considers empty password as "don't change the current password", so that would not be trivial.