Ughh! Do you really think that this would be a solution,
and a good "suggestion". In this case would you give every user
the root password?
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> Suggestion: Try changing your USER password as "root." That should work....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Al Niessner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: expert-mandrake-linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 6:26 PM
> Subject: [expert] changing passwords
>
> >
> > I run 'passwd' in my user account to change my password as one would
> > expect. Lets pretend my password is currently 'peanut' for now -- no
> > this is not my real password and never has been. So, 'passwd' asks for
> > my current password to verify that I am who I am and I type it in. It
> > then wants a new password. I have decided to make the new one tougher
> > so I used 'h4+J,8eFkjS;wEttl4K^2' -- or something like that. 'passwd'
> > refuses the new password on grounds that it is too similar to my
> > previous one. I find this really hard to believe since it is much
> > longer and contains non-alphabet characters unlike my first one. To
> > test this problem some more, I tried various length passwords with at
> > least one non-alphabet character in it and I get the same response. I
> > then used 'walnut' and my password changed without any problems -- no my
> > password is not really walnut nor has it ever been. The point is, they
> > were both simple words,-- meaning, all lower case, all alphabetic
> > characters , and the same length. I would have thought these two
> > passwords to be the same even if we ignore they are both nuts. I double
> > checked and I am using the expanded password capability -- MD5. Any
> > ideas as to what is wrong here? Oh, I also tried it from root using
> > 'passwd -u nut' and have the exact same problem -- as I expected but I
> > had to try it anyways to be complete.
> >
> >
> > Notes:
> >
> > I checked the archive and did not find any references for this.
> >
> > Platform is Mandrake 6.0
> >
> >
> >
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