Follow mePoppassd is a service that changes system passwords. This article describes how to setup poppassd in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5.
1. Download and install the Razor’s Edge Repository rpm package.
2. Install poppassd using the command below.
yum install poppassd
3. Enable the on-demand service poppassd. Learn how to enable on-demand services here.
Make sure xinetd is also running so it can automatically launch poppassd.
4. Edit the file /etc/pam.d/poppassd and replace the content with the lines below.
auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so password requisite pam_cracklib.so password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow
The line password requisite pam_cracklib.so requires the new password to be strong and at least six (6) characters long. You can leave it out if you do not want that restriction.
5. In a Terminal window, type in the highlighted commands below.Sample poppassd session. Replace johndoe, secret and p@ssw0rd with your own valid user account, old password and new password respectively.
[root@mail ~]# telnet localhost 106 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. 200 poppassd v1.8.5 hello, who are you? user johndoe 200 Your password please. pass secret 200 Your new password please. newpass p@ssw0rd 200 Password changed, thank-you. quit 200 Bye.
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Posted on 7/19/2009 and last updated on 3/6/2011
Filed under CentOS 5 , Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
August 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
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ERROR: Invalid query: MDB2 Error: connect failed
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