When did this start?
garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel
Changing password for user ppatel.
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based on a dic
tionary word
passwd: Have exhausted maximum number of retries for service
garry@ifr$
The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine?
Since when?
I wanted to assign a temporary password for a new user and then do
sudo passwd -e ppatel
to force it to be changed. For the new user, enforcing password
complexity is, I guess, OK. But for root? And why bail after three
tries to get a compliant password? That seems capricious (not to
mention irritating) to me.
How do I revert this unwelcome change?
System log shows up errors, too:
Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr sudo[130692]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for
user root by garry(uid=0)
Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par
se: unknown or broken option; local_users_only
Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par
se: unknown or broken option; retry=3
Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par
se: unknown or broken option; local_users_only
Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par
se: unknown or broken option; retry=3
Oct 31 16:59:57 ifr passwd[130694]: gkr-pam: couldn't update the login keyri
ng password: no old password was entered
Oct 31 16:59:59 ifr sudo[130692]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for
user root
--
Garry Williams
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
