On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 18:23 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I had set my wife an account on one of my computers recently,
a
Thinkpad E-series using MATE User Manager under F31. I suppose I may
have
failed to set her password, though I doubt that intensely.
This is a machine that never leaves my desk, despite being a
laptop.
I typed in her usual password for logging in; I got this:
su - tslg
You are required to change your password immediately
(administrator enforced)
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based
on a
dictionary word
su: Authentication token manipulation error
Just for the record, it consists of first letters of a line of
poetry, and does not resemble any word in any of the several
languages I
know. (The app is probably just complaining of the length.) Nor had
I
enforced any such requirement, nor would I.
useradd -h as root got me nothing that seemed to enable even
root
to edit a user's data. (I tried -p and -u.) Can I do it??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is
Suppose I try the obvious: delete and re-add her. (She has not
yet
touched this particular machine, so the account is still empty.) Will
she
or I then be able to set the password she chooses?
I don't mind an OS warning me of hazards I can judge better
than
it can; but I do take it amiss to be forbidden something trivial.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is
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