Passwd: users can't set their own passwd

[Karl Latiss]

Greg Wiggill wrote:
> After setting up a new ES Ver 3 server, users cannot change their own
> passwords using passwd.
> 
>     either get
> 
> 	BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word     or
> 
> 	BAD PASSWORD: it is too short
> 
>      it wont accept or update anything
> 
> 	passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
> 
> 
> Tried changing the 'required' to 'optional' in /etc/pam.d/passwd  to no
> avail
> 
> auth       optional     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> account    optional     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> password   optional     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Have a look at /etc/pam.d/system-auth, in particular

password    requisite     /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3

( and /usr/share/doc/pam-0.75/txts/README.pam_cracklib)

You may want to modify/remove this entry, although it _is_ there for a 
good reason.

There should be no need to change /etc/pam.d/passwd

Karl.

> 
> Thanks
> Greg
> 
> 
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