[Freeipa-users] Password requirements too stringent

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 02:57:49AM +0000, JR Aquino wrote:
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> On Sep 17, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Tim Hildred wrote:
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> > JR
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> > I had that line. I commented it out. Thank you.
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> > Now, what do I have to restart?
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> I believe it should take effect in real time, but you may need to test to be sure.  If it is still happening, you may need to double check that some other pam cfg doesn't also have it present: $ cd /etc/pam.d/ && grep pam_cracklib *
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> If you have removed it from everything and it is still giving you the same error, then I would try a reboot... perhaps getty needs to reinitialize or something.  But I'd try those steps before a reboot!
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> ;)
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Some services, notably the sshd, must be restarted in order to re-read
the PAM config.