passwd: Authentication failure on redhat

Question

Hi,

I have an application (APP1) which can only be executed by a user with root privileges but not by root.

Hence I have created another user root1 :
adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 -M root1

And then when I am trying to assign a password to this user I get an authentication failure.

[root]# passwd root1
Changing password for user root1.
New UNIX password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication failure

I looked up a lot on google and tried lot of things suggested but none of them resolved this error.
Could you please help me in resolving the above error, so that I can login to the system using root1 to execute the application(APP1).

Thanks,

Answer 1

The problem is your password. You cannot change the super user password to something really easy and guessable like "qwerty".

Also, Red Hat has a nice article about password security.