passwd - error message can someone explain - BAD PASSWORD: it is derived from your password entry
when some users attempt to change there password with 'passwd' they are receiving this message
example: Changing password for axgadmd. (current) UNIX password: New password: BAD PASSWORD: it is derived from your password entry |
Hi,
Likely it's a PAM feature. Copied from my /etc/pam.d/system-auth: Quote:
Code:
man pam_pwquality Hope this helps. |
Thanks for the info. We already used the 'sudo passwd username' to force the password change.
It does seem to be related to the PAM either pam_pwquality or pam_cracklib. It's not documented or at least I currently can not find it documented on what it actually means unlike some of the other "BAD PASSWORD" messages. |
I believe that particular error is caused by a violation of the difok option...that the new password is not different from the old password by the difok number of characters. The man page says that defaults to 5.
I'm not able to find definitive documentation for the error either, however. |
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