New user creation Error: Password not accepted due to PAM restrictions

eris · December 17, 2020, 12:35pm

hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/4b4edd540ffde7f17a364aa3911c11b71b477eab/bin/v-add-user#L66-L73


echo "$user:$password" | /usr/sbin/chpasswd
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then 
    # Delete user on failure
    /usr/sbin/deluser "$user" > /dev/null 2>&1
    echo "Error: Password not accepted due to PAM restrictions"
    exit 2
fi

Changing password seem to fail? Did you modify the minium password requirements in /etc/

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