Alcatel Unleashed

Hi all,

I want to change the log-in password in my system(Crystal hw, CPU 7-2,Release 9.0). I use the "passwd"command in telnet.While entering new password,It displays the following error messages:
BAD PASSWORD:It is too short
BAD PASSWORD:It is too simple
BAD PASSWORD:It is dictionary word
I have tried various passwords but system is not accepting any of them

Regards,
Ravinder singh

Hallo,

if you want to change the mtcl password, then you have to look to the password rules. You can find it in swinst:

Current password check rules :
- password string must have a minimum of 8 characters
- password string must have atleast 2 alphabets (1 upper case mandatory)
- password string must have atleast 2 numeric characters
- password string must have atleast 1 special character
- This rule doesn't concern accounts root and swinst, but nevertheless
a warning is displayed.
- new password must be different from the last three.
- at least fifty percent of characters of the new password must
be different from the previous one.


A working example is maybe:

Tr@ining123


If you want to change the Password independent of this rules, you can do it with the rootuser.

Type as root:

passwd mtcl

then enter the password twice. You get an errormessage, but the password will change.
Don't forget to enter the userid (mtcl) after the passwd command, otherwise you will change the root password.

greetings,

Wolfgang

you can change any password with passwd "mtcl" command in root account

When you enter password (f.e. under root "passwd mtcl") - when systen answer "BAD PASSWORD:It is too short" not exit, enter the same password second time.