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IS-IT--Management
Ok, aficianados of the obscure:
I have a business system running on RedHat 6.5. I need to simplify the login passwords to be more like to NT Server passwords my users demand. I am very much a linux newbie. All printers on the linux server are network printers, some SMB, some Remote lpd queues. In order to force the password to stay the way I set it for new users, I made this change in the etc/pam.d/login file: on the password required pam_cracklib.so I added dcredit=0 ucredit=0 ocredit=0 lcredit=0 minlen=6 and made the same change in the etc/pam.d/passwd file. It seemed to work. I created a new user and when I signed in I did not have to create an obscure new password. However, printing stopped. Sending an ascii test page from printtool produced the error message lpr: connect: Connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
All the SMB printers print under the Administrator userid, so I reset that password, bounced lpd, rebooted, etcetera.
When I took out the dcredit, o,u,l and minlen changes on cracklib, printing started again. What's the connection and how to I fix this.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I have a business system running on RedHat 6.5. I need to simplify the login passwords to be more like to NT Server passwords my users demand. I am very much a linux newbie. All printers on the linux server are network printers, some SMB, some Remote lpd queues. In order to force the password to stay the way I set it for new users, I made this change in the etc/pam.d/login file: on the password required pam_cracklib.so I added dcredit=0 ucredit=0 ocredit=0 lcredit=0 minlen=6 and made the same change in the etc/pam.d/passwd file. It seemed to work. I created a new user and when I signed in I did not have to create an obscure new password. However, printing stopped. Sending an ascii test page from printtool produced the error message lpr: connect: Connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
All the SMB printers print under the Administrator userid, so I reset that password, bounced lpd, rebooted, etcetera.
When I took out the dcredit, o,u,l and minlen changes on cracklib, printing started again. What's the connection and how to I fix this.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein