Unable to change password for encrypted account
Bug #1495348 reported by
Adrian Cochrane
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Switchboard User Accounts Plug |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
My user account was set to be encrypted using the installer and I tried to change the password using the user accounts plug.
This appeared to work until I restarted when logging in with the new password caused Greeter to fade out and back in again and the password entry field shook when I entered my old password.
I've now used the rescue shell to reset my password to the old one so I need no advice in how to get out of this situation.
It would be nice if this was fixed so I can change my password on an encrypted account, but please at least refuse to change passwords for encrypted accounts.
description: | updated |
Changed in switchboard-plug-useraccounts: | |
milestone: | none → loki-beta1 |
Changed in switchboard-plug-useraccounts: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in switchboard-plug-useraccounts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in switchboard-plug-useraccounts: | |
milestone: | loki-beta1 → loki-rc1 |
Changed in switchboard-plug-useraccounts: | |
milestone: | loki-rc1 → none |
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I have seen this bug also. I'm running a dual-boot system (elementary on one drive, Windows 7 on a second drive), with a single root partition and swap partition.
The workaround I found was to run the *ecryptfs- rewrap- passphrase* command after mounting my encrypted home directory. I wrote a more in-depth report + answer here: https:/ /elementaryos. stackexchange. com/questions/ 7947/login- redirects- back-to- login-screen.