When I try to create new account, configuration error or permission error occur

Question

I am trying to create new account in Ubuntu:

$ sudo adduser --force-badname "jenkins"

Adding user `jenkins' ...

Adding new group `jenkins' (1001) ...

configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator)

Adding new user `jenkins' (1001) with group `jenkins' ...

configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator)

Creating home directory `/home/jenkins' ...

Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...

passwd: Permission denied
passwd: password unchanged

I commented out the PASS_MIN_LEN item in /etc/login.defs, but the following errors still occur:

passwd: Permission denied
passwd: password unchanged

How I can resolve this issue?

Answer 1

Look under /etc/security/*. The files under there control the limits imposed by PAM now. There are notes about this move in the /etc/pam.d files, specifically the login file.