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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: mgic_box on May 28, 2008, 03:00:34 PM

Title: Cannot Change Root, nor admim Password
Post by: mgic_box on May 28, 2008, 03:00:34 PM

 Hello,

 I am trying to chnge the adminpassword, using the control Pannel.

 It says that: "The password you provided was not a good password. A good password must contain all of the following: upper case letter, lower case letter, number, non-alphanumeric character, be at least 7 characters long."

 I have already read this post/converstion

  http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=29864

  And done the falw.:

  config setprop passwordstrength admin none


 But still says that: "The password you provided was not a good password. A good password must contain all of the following: upper case letter, lower case letter, number, non-alphanumeric character, be at least 7 characters long."....

  Any solution, or have I raise a Bug????

  Regards.





 

Title: Re: Cannot Change Root, nor admim Password
Post by: mercyh on May 28, 2008, 03:14:37 PM

Is your password you are trying to use 7 characters? Even if you set password checking strength to none the 7 character length requirement stands. (This is because PAM requires 6 characters and another character was added in case future changes may require it.)

Title: Re: Cannot Change Root, nor admim Password
Post by: mercyh on May 28, 2008, 03:22:14 PM

Quote

config setprop passwordstrength admin none

This should be:

Code: [Select]

config setprop passwordstrength Admin noneNote the capital A in Admin.

you can also do a:

Code: [Select]

config show passwordstrength
to see if it worked.

EDIT: removed a small rant :)

Title: Re: Cannot Change Root, nor admim Password
Post by: mgic_box on May 28, 2008, 04:57:10 PM

Quote from: mercyh on May 28, 2008, 03:22:14 PM

This should be:

Code: [Select]

config setprop passwordstrength Admin noneNote the capital A in Admin.

you can also do a:

Code: [Select]

config show passwordstrength
to see if it worked.

  You saved my day, and saved me a lot of time serching the net.

  Thanks a lot.

  Problem Solved.

  For me you can close this topic.

Title: Re: Cannot Change Root, nor admim Password
Post by: mercyh on May 28, 2008, 05:18:47 PM

Mgic_box,

I removed the last part of my other post. If you wish for it to not become part of this discussion you can remove it from your quote as well.

One of the reasons I use SME and support this forum so heavily is that this user group is generally quite polite and considerate. I have been on other forums where it was common for a thread to go down in flame.

I am happy that you are on the forum and willing to help out.