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Re: I broke my PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gregory j pryzby)
Fri Nov 8 15:38:05 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:17:02 -0500 (EST)
From: gregory j pryzby <gjp@sddi.com>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
>
> gregory j pryzby writes:
> >Ok... That was it. Any idea why the password was blank? I know I setup
> >the accounts with passwords (I have been in linux for 4 years) and unix
> >for more... Something didn't set it up (maybe the adduser tool from
> >control panel) or could something have wasted it?
>
> I think I just figured it out now. Any chance that you entered a
> *simple* password that the passwd program wouldn't like into the
> user tool? If so, I think it didn't realize that the passwd program
> rejected the password.
One of them no, the other maybe... I just learned one of my better
passwords isn't considered good... huh... but a simpler one is...
It could be the usertool didn't complain. But it is fixed and I will
now know to check that...
Thanks for teh help.
> That's automatically been fixed with the latest version of pam that
> we are about to release; root will now be able to set any password
> without complaint, and that will fix usertool as well.
>
> michaelkjohnson
>
> "Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?"
>
>
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