* Dale Hair (dale@meridian-electric.com) [020502 17:54]: > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:01, Dale Hair wrote: > > I have a system with two users, one can't login with gdm but can from > > the console. The other user and root can login ok. Any ideas? > > It seems the problem is the password is a dictionary word. Changing the > password allows login. When I add another user with the same password > or another password that's in the dictionary I cannot login. However > this same user with the same password can login on another computer, > both running woody with dist-upgrade today. Why does gdm refuse this > password when login from console, ftp, and ssh accepts it. Is there a line containing something about cracklib in /etc/pam.d/gdm but not in the pam configs for those other services? Still, I'd expect it to be set up to disallow changing the password *to* a weak one, but not disallow login with a weak password. Depends on the setup, I suppose, but it sounds strange to me, still. good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume.shtml
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