passwd prompts for new password only once when <enter> is pressed

When I just press the "enter" key when passwd prompts for new
password, I should get re-prompted 3 times. Instead, it reprompts only
once for FC 6.
How to change passwd's behavior so that it will re-prompt 3 times?

# adduser admin
# passwd admin
Changing password for user admin.
New UNIX password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is WAY too short
Retype new UNIX password:
No password supplied
No password supplied
No password supplied
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

# uname -a
Linux tulip 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

wong_powah@yahoo.ca wrote:
> When I just press the "enter" key when passwd prompts for new
> password, I should get re-prompted 3 times. Instead, it reprompts only
> once for FC 6.
> How to change passwd's behavior so that it will re-prompt 3 times?

Passwd assumes that if you're changing a password as root then you
really know what you're doing. For all other users it will continue to
insist for a valid password.

Chris