When you login to your vps, are you authenticating the connection via password or certificate? On 9/28/11, Marco Fioretti <mfioretti at 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 at vps ~]# passwd new_user > Changing password for user new_user > New password: > Retype new password: > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error > [root at 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? > > TIA, > Marco > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me on +61 478 241 896. Regards, Christopher Hawker