hi all,

i am trying to change the password of a user as the same is used in
various deployment scripts but when chnaging the passowrd to desired one by root user i am getting as below

Changing password for user tcms.
New UNIX password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

In all computer stuff, you can pretty much do anything, but you must ask yourself: Should you?

It's interesting that it rejects that password because it is literally able to crack it in three tries, yes...

'Root'?

actually that user was locked that why it was showing incorrect password even after changing with root user. any ways i unlocked it with faillog command.

If a password is hardcoded in, and probably should not age, then it should be a robust, random one.

You need to remove (or comment out) the pam_cracklib line in the appropriate PAM configuration file. This is probably /etc/pam.d/system-auth but I could be wrong as I am not sitting in front of a Red Hat system at the moment.