On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:23 +0300, mailadmin at 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