From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95) Description of problem: I am trying to force users to change their passwords by setting the password age, specifically: chage -d0 testuser When I login as testuser, I am asked to change password. If the password is too short, has too many repeats, is too close to the current password, or is a dictionary word, I get the appropriate message. So far, so good. However, if I put in something that "should" work (e.g., "fredðel" or "Mxy!PtZ%lK*"), I get a "too simple" error. This *only* happens with the forced password change on login -- if I am logged in as testuser, I can change the password to either of those values with no problem. Also, this happens on RH 7.1, but not 7.0 or 6.2, both of which work as I would expect. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.force password change on login (chage -d0 testuser) 2.login and try to set password (e.g., Mxy!PtZ%lK*) 3. Actual Results: Get "bad password - too simple" Expected Results: should have changed password Additional info:
This should be fixed in pam-0.75-11 and later. Please reopen this bug ID if you find that this is not the case. Thanks!
*** Bug 50356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***