On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:23 +0300, mailadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have recently installed CentOS 5 and is workin perfect
>
> i recently download n installed poppassd daemon ver 1.6a so as to let the
> users to change their password
> but when i try to change password i get the folling error
>
> 500 'BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word'
>
> i tried googlin arround and tried to play with
> system-auth-ac file in /etc/pam.d but no use
I know nothing about poppassd, but the message you are getting is
probably coming from pam_cracklib. Among other things it will check:
1. If your password is based on a dictionary word.
2. If you password is a palindrome.
3. Similarity of your new password to the previous one.
4. If your password is a reverse of the previous password.
5. etc, etc.
Most of these options are non-configurable. Using longer passwords
seems to suppress some of the rejections. If you don't care about
enforcing password complexity look here to disable it:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_44_6065.shtm
Otherwise try using a stronger password.
-Steve
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