On 11/1/19 9:38 AM, Garry Williams wrote:
When did this start?

     garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel
     Changing password for user ppatel.

Have you changed your sudo settings? Why didn't it ask for your user password?

The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine?
Since when?

You don't say what Fedora version you are running. This doesn't happen for me on F30. I get the warnings about short or otherwise bad passwords, but it lets it happen anyway.

to force it to be changed.  For the new user, enforcing password
complexity is, I guess, OK.  But for root?  And why bail after three
tries to get a compliant password?  That seems capricious (not to
mention irritating) to me.

3 retries is the usual thing.

    Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr sudo[130692]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for
user root by garry(uid=0)
    Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par
se: unknown or broken option; local_users_only
    Oct 31 16:59:26 ifr passwd[130694]: pam_pwquality(passwd:chauthtok): pam_par
se: unknown or broken option; retry=3

There is something wrong with your authentication setup.
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