Root Password

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue Apr 11 11:04:59 UTC 2006


On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

> On 4/11/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I am unable to reset my root password, It gives me the following information
> > >
> > > [root at 311111e python]# passwd root
> > > Changing password for user root.
> > > New password:
> > > Retype new password:
> > > passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
> > > [root at 311111e python]#
> >
> > What happens with just
> >
> > passwd
> >
> > on its own?  This should set your current user password, which is root.
> >
> > -Andy
>
> Hi Andy
>
> I get the same error
>
> [root at 311111e python]# passwd
> Changing password for user root.
> New password:
> Retype new password:
> passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
> [root at 311111e python]#

using the explicit name "root" shouldn't have changed anything.  i
would also guess that PAM might be enforcing some strict password
checking here.

rday




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