id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
22364	changepassword fails on Windows	John Paulett	John Paulett	"""manage.py changepassword"" fails on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 due to getpass receiving an unicode string.  

{{{
C:\project>manage.py changepassword bob
Changing password for user 'bob'
Traceback (most recent call last):
    djangorecipe.manage.main('test_project.settings')
  File ""C:\project\vendor\djangorecipe\src\djangorecipe\manage.py"", line 9, in main
    management.execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File ""C:\project\eggs\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\django\core\management\__init__.py"", line 399, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File ""C:\project\eggs\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\django\core\management\__init__.py"", line 392, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File ""C:\project\eggs\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\django\core\management\base.py"", line 242, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File ""C:\project\eggs\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\django\core\management\base.py"", line 285, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File ""C:\project\eggs\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\django\contrib\auth\management\commands\changepassword.py"", line 50, in handle
    p1 = self._get_pass()
  File ""C:\project\eggs\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\django\contrib\auth\management\commands\changepassword.py"", line 21, in _get_pass
    p = getpass.getpass(prompt=prompt)
  File ""C:\Python27\lib\getpass.py"", line 95, in win_getpass
    msvcrt.putch(c)
TypeError: must be char, not unicode
}}}

Related to #19807, which had the same error in createsuperuser on Windows.  I have tested the same solution to force_str and it resolves the issue (Pull Request is incoming).  On other OSes, everything works fine.

This appears to be a regression was introduced in 1.5 and is still present today.  changepassword on Windows worked under 1.4.  It definitely seems relevant to include in the 1.7 release and potentially as a bug fix release for 1.5 & 1.6.  I found no other reports of this error, so there does not seem to be a large affected population, but would be helpful to me to have as part of any upcoming 1.6.x bug fix release (I do have a workaround under 1.6 until then).


"	Bug	closed	contrib.auth	1.6	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0