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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/28/2014 04:21 PM, John Trump
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      <div dir="ltr">Not using any other client app. User logged on to a
        linux system and trying to change password. If they choose a
        password to similar to the old one it will not allow it.</div>
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    How are you changing the password, are you using ldapmodify?  Can
    you post access log(/var/log/dirsrv/slapd-INSTANCE/access) output
    showing the failed password attempt?<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Mark
          Reynolds <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                  <div>On 05/28/2014 04:06 PM, John Trump wrote:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Haven't been able to come up with a
                      solution yet. Hopefully someone on the list has a
                      suggestion.</div>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 23, 2014 at
                        12:42 PM, John Trump <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
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                          <div dir="ltr">I would like to relax the
                            password policy for specific users to allow
                            them to modify passwords but use similar
                            password to their old one. These are "group"
                            accounts and would like to allow password to
                            be set to: password01 then allow password to
                            be changed to password02. Currently this is
                            not allowed. I understand security risk etc
                            in allowing this. I do want to keep other
                            password complexity and history settings.
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                            <div>Suggestions?</div>
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              I'm not aware of a setting in 389 that prohibits you from
              using secret01, then secret02, and then secret03, etc. 
              These should all be allowed.  Are you using some other
              client app(freeIPA?) to make these password updates?<br>
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