Clone functionality in user manager

When I clone a user in user manger (r3914, 5.0.15), I would expect to get a user with all the privileges copied from the currently selected user. What I get is a new user with no privileges, so there seems to be no difference to creating a new user.
Is my expectation wrong?

Your expectation is right. And I think that was the case at some point, and I broke that in some recent change, accidentally. Will check.

Fixed in r3917

In this case... can You also clone password string? MAny times I need to add acces for one user from different locations.

The "IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword'" expects a clear text, non encrypted password. As the hashes are not reversible, it cannot be cloned. Sorry.

but when You clone user You can copy an encrypted password after user insert (db: mysql, table: user, column: Password) and then run flush privileges. As I think You can do that becouse I do that manually and works fine.

From that point is my suggestion to improve functionality of this function.

Oh, you're right, you can pass both a plaintext password or a hash:

To avoid specifying the plaintext password if you know its hash value (the value that PASSWORD() would return for the password), specify the hash value preceded by the keyword PASSWORD:

CREATE USER 'jeffrey'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*90E462C37378CED12064BB3388827D2BA3A9B689';

Sol can You add this functionality to clone user in user manager ?

I think that You can add sth like checkbox "hash/plain text" and depends on it create new account. This would be more universal solution.

We don't even need a checkbox. Hashes begin with a '*' character and always have the same length of 41 characters. When cloning a user, I can just copy the hash to the new user's password, and disable the password char in the password edit boxes.

r4747 overtakes the old username and hashed password when cloning a user.