Re: More meaningful failure messages when changing passwords

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On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 22:39 +0000, Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> Our organization’s security policies impose several constraints on
> password changes.  There is a complexity requirement, and a ban on
> reuse of old passwords.  I’ve gotten all of these requirements worked
> into the 389 server, but when the constraints aren’t met, the error
> message is very misleading and opaque:
>  
> Password change failed. Server message: Failed to update password
>  
> passwd: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required
>  
> This results in a lot of support requests about the inability to
> change passwords.  Is there any way to make the error messages a
> little more descriptive?  We’re using pam_sss and sssd on Centos 7.x.

This might be a bug in SSSD, because I think we provide messages back
in the LDAP message to explain what happened. It may be worth talking
to them about this error,

Thanks, 

>  
> Thanks,
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William
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