When you login to your vps, are you authenticating the connection via password or certificate?

On 9/28/11, Marco Fioretti mfioretti@nexaima.net wrote:

greetings,

I am setting up Centos 6 i686 remotely, on a new VPS.

A problem I have is that I cannot set password for new users. I have created one with

useradd -m new_user

but when I type

passwd new_user

this is the result:

[root@vps ~]# passwd new_user Changing password for user new_user New password: Retype new password: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error [root@vps ~]# tail /var/log/secure

Sep 27 17:30:30 vps passwd: pam_cracklib(passwd:chauthtok): pam_get_authtok_verify returned error: Failed preliminary check by password service

but I have no clue what the check I've failed is, or if it's a console problem (locales, weird control characters) or maybe a selinux thing?

For the record, if I enter a weak password on purpose, e.g. "amok", everything works, meaning that I get an explanation like "password refused because it's too short", or something like that. But when I try longer passwords, with or without non alphanumeric characters, I get this error.

what else should I check, or fix?

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 18:37:52 PM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:

greetings,

I am setting up Centos 6 i686 remotely, on a new VPS. A problem I have is that I cannot set password for new users.

I solved this, so to speak, reinstalling from scratch. I had likely installed conflicting security related packages and/or misconfigured them.

Marco