On February 17 at the Clinic I needed to change my password on my
laptop. I simply appended '1' to the password, and that worked then and
continues to work fine.
However, I now wish to change my password back to the original. I need
to do this because 1) I keep forgetting to add the '1' and 2) I have
developed a problem with LibreOffice not removing lock files and
refusing to open documents, and I wish to eliminate any issue with the
password.
>From the command line I tried passwd, but it refused because it said
the new password was too similar to the old one. OK, passwd program, I
don't disagree, but just do it, and I mean it, 'k?
So then I tried changing my password to xyz intending to change xyz to
my old password, but passwd bitched that this was too short. So I
tried changing it to abcdefg, but this resulted in:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
So then I tried 'passwd <myusername> and then I got to abcdefg but the
error message changed to 'new and old passwords are too similar.' My
current password contains none of the letters abcdefg. WTH?
Why was I able to change my password on February 17 by just appending
1, and now every change seems to be 'too similar'?
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