i need a list of possible errors that occure if you change your linux password

[wu_trax]

when you start passwd and try to change your password.
things like too short, too simple, and so on.
any ideas?

[MT]

cd /etc/pam.d
cat passwd

(i think)

also you could read your man pages for passwd/pam

[zenopus]

Or, for a guaranteed exhaustive list

  $ su -
  Password:
  $ which passwd
  /usr/bin/passwd
  $ strings /usr/bin/passwd | more

Then you just have to ignore all the stuff that does not look like error messages.

[MT]

On systems with PAM, the error messages are sprintf'ed from whatever the pam module that rejected the new password, so looking at the string values in passwd would probably get you something along the lines of "%s: %s"

[wu_trax]

oh, sorry, i completly forgt this thread during all the forum-downtime.
i think i catched most errors that might occure and translated the messages (if you think you know strange programming languages have a look at 'expect', i didnt get along at all :/)