Red Hat

Hi expert,

after creating users on Redhat, i wantn to change their password with something that easy to remember and the way we use. For example
#passwd username
hello$123

it don't allow me. It may has something to do /etc/pam.d/filesXXXX there which i don't know to change to allow root to change user to any password BUT NOT following the restriction.

Thank you in advance!

Hi there!

You need to comment out the following in /etc/pam.d/system-auth file:

Code:

# password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 type=

Then, try something like:

Code:

password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 minlen=8 dcredit=1 ucredit=0 lcredit=1 ocredit=1 minclass=2 maxrepeat=0

Basically you need to play with the options, to get what you want. But be advised that this is system wide change and you are allowing your users to keep weak passwords which is not at all recommended in a production environment.

There's a very good explanation on the options I stated above on the man page.

Code:

man 8 pam_cracklib