On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: : How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing : to accept moderately complex passwords that passwd wants to throw : out. `man passwd` gives me nothing, and I'm not certain where else to : look-- is this the doings of PAM?
Run passwd as root. RTFM passwd.c; passwd tries to prevent lusers from using crappy passwords. This is generally accepted as a feature. : It is particularly annoying because it reminds me of the Windows design : philosophy: "I know better than you do what you're trying to do." Windows lets you ignore passwords altogether and isn't really known as a secure OS ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
