On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:23 +0300, mailadmin@baladia.gov.kw wrote:
Dear All,
I have recently installed CentOS 5 and is workin perfect
i recently download n installed poppassd daemon ver 1.6a so as to let the users to change their password but when i try to change password i get the folling error
500 'BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word'
i tried googlin arround and tried to play with system-auth-ac file in /etc/pam.d but no use
I know nothing about poppassd, but the message you are getting is probably coming from pam_cracklib. Among other things it will check:
1. If your password is based on a dictionary word. 2. If you password is a palindrome. 3. Similarity of your new password to the previous one. 4. If your password is a reverse of the previous password. 5. etc, etc.
Most of these options are non-configurable. Using longer passwords seems to suppress some of the rejections. If you don't care about enforcing password complexity look here to disable it:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_44_6065.shtm
Otherwise try using a stronger password.
-Steve