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The password the user is trying to set is not following passwd's
guidelines. From the man page:
The user is then prompted for a
replacement password. This password
is tested for complexity. As a gen-
eral guideline, passwords should con-
sist of 6 to 8 characters including
one or more from each of following
sets:
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Lower case alphabetics
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Upper case alphabetics
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Digits 0 thru 9
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Punctuation marks
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Care must be taken not to include the
system default erase or kill charac-
ters. passwd will reject any pass-
word which is not suitably complex.
root can/does get supreme control over passwords, of course, and that's
why he can set any password, regardless of "complexity".
BTW, Samba uses passwd, i believe, to change a user's password or if
not, at least its error checking.
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:34, Narayanasamy, Sundar wrote:
> Hello,
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> I have a samba server that comes up with the following error, when regula=
r user tries to change the password. It allows the root to set the same pas=
sword.
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> Error:
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The specified=
password is invalid.
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> Regards,
> Sundar
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