Hi I am in the midsts of debugging this but am hoping anyone can shed some light on the issue or point me in the right direction. A certain combination of changes to the global password policy seems to break the abbility to change a user's password. user1 at client01.example's password: You are required to change your LDAP password immediately. Last login: Mon Sep 27 16:06:18 2010 from 10.5.11.115 Connection to client01.example closed. When it works it looks like: ssh client01 -l user1 user1 at client01's password: You are required to change your LDAP password immediately. Creating directory '/home/user1'. WARNING: Your password has expired. You must change your password now and login again! Changing password for user user1 Enter login(LDAP) password: Connection to client01 closed. Settings that we have toggled in the global password policy is: Enable fine-grained password policy User must change password after reset Allow changes in x days We don't change anything on the client so I am 99% sure its not a a pam misconfiguration. Best Regards ________________________________________________________________________ In order to protect our email recipients, Betfair Group use SkyScan from MessageLabs to scan all Incoming and Outgoing mail for viruses. ________________________________________________________________________