> Effective policy is determined by new_passwdPolicy() which considers the modification > initiated by the password change extop to be internal and local policy is not > retrieved. I suspected as much - this should probably go in the password policy section of the documentation as there are all sorts of recommendations flying round the Web for setting pam_password to "exop" to allow password changes to work properly. It does indeed work but as you say, it bypasses all password policies (except global ones it seems). PK
