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[krbdev.mit.edu #6888] No explanation of failed passwd entry if

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson via RT)
Tue Mar 29 18:39:37 2011

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I think this is actually a server bug.  The kpasswd server should be 
returning a soft error on a password quality failure and a hard error 
otherwise.  It was doing the right thing up until 1.7 when RFC 3244 was 
implemented, at which point the result codes were accidentally switched.
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