Sync issue with encrypted passwords

[David Bannon]

>the old password never stopped me its the "new password is bad" problem
>for me.
>
>I ended up having to compile a different passwd that didn't have cracklib
>so the user could use any "bad" password they wanted.
>

Would'nt it have been enough to remove cracklib from your PAM stack
(cracklib means that you are using PAM I think ?) ?

David
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