cannot cope with incorrect current password under LDAP backend

This is an issue on x86 too.
Some more symptoms (sorry for not being able to reproduce the correct dialogs, I do not have this app in English)
1) Clicking on Change Password the 'Present password' line accepts ANY passwords, after clicking on the Check button (the one to the right form the 'Presnet password' input box).
2) Then you give your new password (twice). You do this happily as you have been NOT warned that you made a typo at the present password. You click on the Change Password button and you get: 'The old and new passwords are the same.' (of course they are not.)

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

Thanks for the response. I fixed the problem locally a long time ago and mostly forgot about this bug. Looking at my bugs in bugzilla.gnome.org I don't think I ever filed it upstream either.

I installed a fresh VM of Natty and checked the behaviour. I use libpam-ldapd these days and when that is active the behaviour is correct. I also checked libpam-ldap and when that is active the bug is still present as reported.

I am attaching the patch I have in production that fixes this problem. It's against gnome-control-center 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 from Lucid. Should I regenerate the patch against upstream's git master and send it to them?

thank you for your work, gnome-about-me got deprecated in GNOME3 though so that patch doesn't apply to upstream or oneiric

the patch could still be useful for lucid so I'm opening a bug against that serie and subscribing ubuntu-sponsors

in fact it might still apply to the new user-accounts dialog which has similar looking code

" switch (passwd_handler->backend_state) {
                case PASSWD_STATE_AUTH:
                        /* Passwd is asking for our current password */

                        if (is_string_complete (str->str, "assword: ", "failure", "wrong", "error", NULL))
 {

                                if (strstr (str->str, "assword: ") != NULL) {"

so to check and maybe to adapt for that version as well

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu5

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gnome-control-center (1:3.1.3-0ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Fix LP: #607357 - cannot cope with incorrect current password under
    LDAP backend. Add patch based on original patch to gnome-about-me from
    Ryan Tandy
    - add debian/patches/06_handle_passwd_with_ldap.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:13:29 +0100

SRU team ack: please accept into lucid-proposed.

Hello Ryan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-control-center into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I installed gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu2 from lucid-proposed and verified that it fixes the reported issue. Thanks for accepting my patch!

setting back to "fix committed" because 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu2 is not published to -updates.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:2.30.1-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix LP: #607357 - cannot cope with incorrect current password under
    LDAP backend. Patch from Ryan Tandy
    - add debian/patches/98_handle_passwd_with_ldap.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:23:04 +0100

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