topic Re: Asking for password change in every login in Operating System - Linux

Asking for password change in every login

renjith — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:20:14 GMT

Hi All,

I am facing some problem when I am login to My linux machine.

My server is RHEL AS 3 update 3.
When I am login as root user it is asking for password change every time.If I am try to set the same apssword again it is not accepting and showing same word is in the list or dictionary.
How to overcome this?I dont want to change my password at every login.

Regards
Renjith

Re: Asking for password change in every login

Atul Gautam — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:06:46 GMT

Hi Renjith,

Plz send me the output of the following files ---

1) /etc/security/opasswd
2) /etc/pam.d/login
3) /etc/pam.d/passwd

Also send me the logs.

It seems there is a problem with the PAM configuration which you seem to have changed for your convenience.

Atul

Re: Asking for password change in every login

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:02:08 GMT

Shalom,

The user record in /etc/passwd has an issue.

This is most likely resolved by the chage command.

chage username

SEP

Re: Asking for password change in every login

renjith — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:03:27 GMT

Hi It was a problem with pamd service and configuration we reloaded the rpm for PAM it working ok