I had set my wife an account on one of my computers recently, a Thinkpad E-series using MATE User Manager under F31. I suppose I may have failed to set her password, though I doubt that intensely. This is a machine that never leaves my desk, despite being a laptop. I typed in her usual password for logging in; I got this: su - tslg You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced) New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based on a dictionary word su: Authentication token manipulation error Just for the record, it consists of first letters of a line of poetry, and does not resemble any word in any of the several languages I know. (The app is probably just complaining of the length.) Nor had I enforced any such requirement, nor would I. useradd -h as root got me nothing that seemed to enable even root to edit a user's data. (I tried -p and -u.) Can I do it?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is Suppose I try the obvious: delete and re-add her. (She has not yet touched this particular machine, so the account is still empty.) Will she or I then be able to set the password she chooses? I don't mind an OS warning me of hazards I can judge better than it can; but I do take it amiss to be forbidden something trivial. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is _______________________________________________ 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
