Subject: Bug#3490: adduser password-setting problem

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>, Stephen Early <[email-masked]>, Owen Dunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 96 02:26 BST

Package: adduser
Version: the one on the 1996_6_11 rootdisks

If you get your password wrong during the initial system installation
then (a) adduser bombs out and (b) can't be re-run with the same login
name.  IMO (a) adduser should give you the option, when you fail to
set a password, of trying again, continuing anyway with the password
in a `locked' state, or aborting the account creation.  The control
script which is part of the basedisks should clean up any mess if
adduser fails, or perhaps get adduser to do this.

I've reported this problem in one of my messages about the base
system, too.

(This bug was encountered during a test installation of 1.1 done by
the three of us.)

Ian.