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Poppassd Setup Howto for RHEL/CentOS 5
Poppassd is a service that changes system passwords. This article describes how to setup poppassd in Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5.

1.
Download and install the Razor’s Edge Repository rpm package.

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2. Install
poppassd using the command below.
yum install poppassd

3. Enable
the on-demand service poppassd. Learn how to enable on-demand services here.

Make sure xinetd is also running so it can automatically launch poppassd.

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4. Edit the file /etc/pam.d/poppassd and replace the content with the lines below.
auth required pam_unix.so
account required pam_unix.so
password requisite pam_cracklib.so
password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow

The line password requisite pam_cracklib.so requires the new password to be strong and at
least six (6) characters long. You can leave it out if you do not want that restriction.

5. In a
Terminal window, type in the highlighted commands below.

Sample poppassd session. Replace johndoe, secret and p@ssw0rd with your own valid user account, old
password and new password respectively.

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[root@mail ~]# telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
200 poppassd v1.8.5 hello, who are you?
user johndoe
200 Your password please.
pass secret
200 Your new password please.
newpass p@ssw0rd
200 Password changed, thank-you.
quit
200 Bye.

Visit the forum to ask for help or to give a comment.

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Posted on 7/19/2009 and last updated on 3/6/2011
Filed under CentOS 5 , Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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One Response to “Poppassd Setup Howto for RHEL/CentOS 5”

1. saravanakumar:
August 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

after i installed my squirrell mail name resolving is fine incoming and outgoing mail is ok but in the
option autoresponse is not working it shows the following error what is the solution ? could you help
me ?

ERROR: Invalid query: MDB2 Error: connect failed
connect: [Error message: Access denied for user 'postfix'@'asiaalloys.autoshellcbe.com' (using
password: YES)] [Native code: 1045] [Native message: Access denied for user
postfix'@'asiaalloys.autoshellcbe.com' (using password: YES)] – SQL : SELECT * FROM vacation
WHERE email=? AND active = ?

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