Usermin and Redhat - Password change error

[LuckyTaxi]

Currently have Usermin 0.97 on Redhat 8.0. I tried to change my password but it gives me the following error message. I understand you want passwords that are close to impossible to crack, but I doubt I want to go that route with kids at my school.

Changing password for user ssen.
Changing password for ssen
(current) UNIX password:
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

I work for a school (K-12) so trying to keep kids' password very secure is kinda hard to do. I can change the password on the linux box itself to some simple password, but it won't work through usermin. Any way to defeat this secure feature?

 

[Nothinman]

In /etc/pam.d/system-auth comment out the line:

password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type=

 

[LuckyTaxi]

I get the following error message when I commented out the line. BTW ... I didn't reboot because this is my email server.


Failed to change password : passwd failed :
Changing password for user ssen.
Changing password for ssen
(current) UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered

 

[Nothinman]

You could ry removing the cracklib packge.