[BlueOnyx:21498] Re: 5209R Initial Setup Issue

[Larry Smith]

On Thu October 26 2017 10:40, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> > Really old topic, but just wondering if anything more has
> > been done to reduce the number of "Forbidden" characters
> > in the password???
> >
> > Have run into an issue where we are
> > importing a site from another provider (netsol) and many
> > of the passwords have the at (@) sign in them.  Would
> > really like to import them all as-is so the users do not
> > have changes to make.
> >
> > Or is there a way I can "allow" the at sign for the import
> > (and their passwords work on this server for now).
>
> An easy way around this is to set the old passwords on the command line,
> as that will bypass the CCEd restrictions on passwords. And next time
> around a user uses the GUI to set a new password, then the GUI will
> enforce the new password rules.
>
> Example:
>
> echo "NewPass" |passwd user-joe --stdin

Michael,

  Excellent, that works.  Sincerely appreciate it.

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net