While trying to change the password of a normal user [ I logged in as root], I am getting the following message :-
[root@localhost root]# passwd someuser Changing password for user someuser. passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered [root@localhost root]# ------------------- Think there's some issue in PAM configuration for password policy, please guide me for the same. Its urgent.
run pwdck command at the command line. this command will ensure the consistency with all the user authentication files like 1. /etc/security/passwd 2. /etc/passwd 3. /etc/security/login.cfg 4. /etc/security/user
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2) edit following file and remove only 'use_authtok' from this file. # vi /etc/pam.d/common-password password sufficient pam_ldap.so use_authtok password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
run pwdck command at the command line. this command will ensure the consistency with all the user authentication files like 1. /etc/security/passwd 2. /etc/passwd 3. /etc/security/login.cfg 4. /etc/security/user
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