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Re: gdm login problem



There is nothing in /etc/pam.d/gdm about cracklib.  Also lib-cracklib
isn't installed anyway.
In the files 
gdm	
password required       pam_unix_passwd.so shadow 

login
password   required   pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8

ssh
password   required     pam_unix.so

pam_unix_password.so is a link to pam_unix.so

It's puzzling why gdm is doing this, but now the user has a better
password.

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:34, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * 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
> -- 
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