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Old 09-19-2019
Odd behavior from passwd.

Hi Folks,

Before I go off and start checking I'm just wondering if anyone has seen this behaviour before.

Code:
[root@fbakirpomd4 ~]# passwd e825390
Changing password for user e825390.
New password:
Retype new password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

As you can see there is an extra "Retype new Password", the system is;
Code:
[root@fbakirpomd4 ~]# uname -a
Linux fbakirpomd4 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 21 18:14:51 EDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@fbakirpomd4 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
[root@fbakirpomd4 ~]#

The system has been built and a new "Security Standard" applied, this was done as a result of a "Security Audit" by a company called CGI.

This will cause an issue with a number of the standard accounts that we have on the servers going forward, the idea is to have a standard build so it has to be correct - one problem that I can foress is that the passwords are changed on the aforementioned accounts using an expect script and the second "Retype new Password" will break the script.

So I thought that I'd ask here before I raise an incident with Red Hat support.

Regards

Gull04
# 2  
Old 09-19-2019
I've seen this when multiple PAM rules are matched for one user or group.
Check pam configuration for such rules.

For instance :
Code:
.. other lines ..
password    [default=1 success=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so ... <some conditions like uid gid>
password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so ... <other pw related stuff>
password    [default=1 success=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so ... <other conditions for uid gid>
password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so ... <other pw related stuff>
... other lines...

If a user matches both conditions it will get password prompt twice.
So, AFAIK PAM rules should be very specific and be exclusive, so two rules do not match one group or user.

This is a bit older release, but in newer it is the same, except pam_pwquality.so is used.

Files which are used for such rules are :
Code:
/etc/pam.d/system-auth 
/etc/pam.d/password-auth

Hope that helps
Regards
Peasant.
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Old 09-19-2019
Hi Peasant,

Thanks, I had just come back to post the resolution. You're right, it was a second entry in a file.

This entry was in /etc/pam.d/system-auth;
Code:
password    requisite     pam_pwquality.so try_first_pass local_users_only retry=3 authtok_type=

And this entry was in /etc/pam.d/passwd;
Code:
password   required     pam_pwquality.so retry=3

The second of the two lines is now commented out and all seems to be fine.

Regards

Gull04
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