On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:36:27PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Guenther Deschner wrote: > > > >If you'd try a recent samba release for one of the SUSE products, the user > >attemptimg to change a password would get delivered with the same amount > >of information (explaining why the password change has failed) as you > >would get on Windows XP. > > > >Look for the 3.0.22 or 3.0.23pre1 download links on: > >http://en.opensuse.org/Samba > > > > Thanks, that gave me some error messages. Unfortunately, they only make > me more confused. I get: > > Your password must be at least 4 characters; cannot repeat any of the > your previous 0 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a > password which meets these requirements in both text boxes. > > The password is 8 characters and I type new ones at random and still get > the same message. To make things more bizarre, I was able to change the > pass once (from a 8-char lower case to another 8-char lower case).
Sounds like a minimum password age that is in effect. There is a fix for that in subversion but in any released samba version. Guenther -- Günther Deschner GPG-ID: 8EE11688 Novell / SUSE Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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