--=-idtEwDa7c3f9fRquOuPQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The password the user is trying to set is not following passwd's guidelines. From the man page: The user is then prompted for a replacement password. This password is tested for complexity. As a gen- eral guideline, passwords should con- sist of 6 to 8 characters including one or more from each of following sets: =20 Lower case alphabetics =20 Upper case alphabetics =20 Digits 0 thru 9 =20 Punctuation marks =20 Care must be taken not to include the system default erase or kill charac- ters. passwd will reject any pass- word which is not suitably complex. root can/does get supreme control over passwords, of course, and that's why he can set any password, regardless of "complexity". BTW, Samba uses passwd, i believe, to change a user's password or if not, at least its error checking. On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:34, Narayanasamy, Sundar wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I have a samba server that comes up with the following error, when regula= r user tries to change the password. It allows the root to set the same pas= sword. >=20 > Error: > machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The specified= password is invalid. >=20 >=20 > Regards, > Sundar > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --=20 Bryce C CoBryce Communications --=-idtEwDa7c3f9fRquOuPQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/jc2M/wbq/C6yyPcRAupuAJ9Z/gPVzf2WNtcYVWDuxlNChmqDWQCeMCiP /YyiclBrIAOQxtBqNEQF9pQ= =/97U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-idtEwDa7c3f9fRquOuPQ--