'passwd: Autentication failure' when trying to change the password on RHEL5

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Issue

I got 'passwd: Autentication failure' when I tried to change the password for the user whose UID is not particular UID, where is 800 is the particular UID. But Password was changed successfully with the error messages. I want to avoid the error message.

sample configuration is below.

#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth        required      pam_env.so
auth        sufficient    pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth        required      pam_deny.so
auth        required      pam_tally.so onerr=fail deny=5

account     required      pam_unix.so
account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account     required      pam_permit.so

password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 minclass=3
password    requisite     pam_passwdqc.so min=disabled,disabled,16,8,8
password    [default=1 success=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so uid eq 800
password    required      pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass minlen=15 retry=5 dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 lcredit=-1 ocredit=-1 remember=12
password    sufficient    pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok remember=5
password    required      pam_deny.so

session     optional      pam_keyinit.so revoke
session     required      pam_limits.so
session     [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet use_uid
session     required      pam_unix.so

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8

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