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Old 7th October 2009
ddekok ddekok is offline
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Originally Posted by ck2323 View Post
I recently found out I can't passwd on all accounts including root. This is the error I get when I try:

changing local password for root
pam_passwdqc: Invalid Option: "similiar=deny".
passwd: pam_chauthtok(): general failure

any ideas? I was able to passwd before

fyi i'm on freebsd 7.0
It seems that you have a typo in one of your /etc/pam.d/* files.

Replace "similiar" with "similar" and you should be good to go.
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