When did this start? garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel Changing password for user ppatel. New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters New password: BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based on a dic tionary word passwd: Have exhausted maximum number of retries for service garry@ifr$
The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine? Since when? I wanted to assign a temporary password for a new user and then do sudo passwd -e ppatel to force it to be changed. For the new user, enforcing password complexity is, I guess, OK. But for root? And why bail after three tries to get a compliant password? That seems capricious (not to mention irritating) to me. How do I revert this unwelcome change? System log shows up errors, too: Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr sudo[130692]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by garry(uid=0) Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par se: unknown or broken option; local_users_only Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par se: unknown or broken option; retry=3 Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par se: unknown or broken option; local_users_only Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par se: unknown or broken option; retry=3 Oct 31 16:59:57 ifr passwd[130694]: gkr-pam: couldn't update the login keyri ng password: no old password was entered Oct 31 16:59:59 ifr sudo[130692]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root -- Garry Williams _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org