On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:15:35AM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:50:12PM +0100, Nicolas Fran?ois wrote: > > chpasswd is currently not compiled with PAM support on Debian. > > > > As PAM is responsible for updating /etc/security/opasswd, I prefer to keep > > this bug open, but tagging it wontfix, until we decide whether we can > > compile this utility with PAM support. > > > > Ok. It looks like this functionality is also broken in programs like passwd, > which use PAM. See also Debian Bug #396918...
Well, not completely broken. It is just when passwd is run by root. Because it is considered that root do not have the same password policy (this could also makes sens). I recommend you to set users' password by root to a simple password that can be communicated to the user, but also tag the password as expired, so that the user have to choose a new password the next time he login (and then the new password will be enterred to /etc/security/opasswd; also the administrator do not have to know the users' passwords). Kind Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
