On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 18:23 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > 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 > -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (o) +1 706 850-8773 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (c) +1 678 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ ARIN whois: MHW9-ARIN | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xC0EB9675674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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