Is this normal??

[Darkstar]

I installed the Ubuntu 8.04 and it worked great. I am trying Kubuntu 8.04 on another comp and it says that my login failed. Tried again after another installation of kubuntu and it did the same thing. Same user and pass worked in all ubuntu installs i have done. Why doesn't the same ones work in Kubuntu?? Three letters and three numbers for the password is for some reason not liked by kde. I even tried to reset the pass in recovery and it said passwords didn 't match. Tried another password and it liked it fine...thats weird.

[Darkstar]

Re: Is this normal??

I guess no one else has seen this? Hmmm!!

[stealthbanana]

Re: Is this normal??

Its too simple for a password, and will not let you have it. Choose a harder password. It has been introduced in hardy as a security measure.

Once you logged in go to user-admin in the control centre and change it to whatever you want.

[Snowhog]

Re: Is this normal??

Hmm. Certainly sounds like some other issue is going on here. The default 'minimum' password length is set to 4, so your six character password certainly meets that.

For understanding password management in Ubuntu:
User Management

[stealthbanana]

Re: Is this normal??

Snowhog, that may be out of date. Try this

Create a new user and then when you try and log in using that id, it will demand you change the password, try the simple 3 letters + 3 numbers such as abc123, it will give you a disallowed popup saying its too week.

As I said, once you logged in with a password that meats its criteria, just go ahead and change it to what you want.

[Snowhog]

Re: Is this normal??

Its too simple for a password, and will not let you have it. Choose a harder password. It has been introduced in hardy as a security measure.

Do you know where this is controlled? The /etc/pam.d/common-password file (on my HH system) shows:

# empty passwords are treated as locked accounts.
#
# The "md5" option enables MD5 passwords. Without this option, the
# default is Unix crypt.
#
# The "obscure" option replaces the old `OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB' option in
# login.defs.
#
# You can also use the "min" option to enforce the length of the new
# password.
#
# See the pam_unix manpage for other options.

password requisite pam_unix.so nullok obscure md5

# Alternate strength checking for password. Note that this
# requires the libpam-cracklib package to be installed.
# You will need to comment out the password line above and
# uncomment the next two in order to use this.
# (Replaces the `OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB', `CRACKLIB_DICTPATH')
#
# password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3
# password required pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok md5

# minimally-intrusive inclusion of smbpass in the stack for
# synchronization. If the module is absent or the passwords don't
# match, this module will be ignored without prompting; and if the
# passwords do match, the NTLM hash for the user will be updated
# automatically.
password optional pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok use_first_pass missingok

Note that there isn't a minimum length for a password 'active' - the line containing this is commented out.