BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word

[Tim Potter]

Mike O'Neill writes:

> A non-root user is trying to change their password but cannot because of the
> message:
> 
> BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
> 
> They swear its not true.  Anyways, I was just curious where (if anywhere)
> the config file lies for this functionality.  Do you know?  -mike

It should be in your pam configuration somewhere.  If you're
using linux look in /etc/pam.d/passwd.  There should be a line
like:

password required       pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3

which does the dictionary word checking stuff.


Tim.