On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Ben Collins said:
> > Edit /etc/login.defs and modify the minimum password length config.
>
> That allows _short_ passwords, but not _weak_ ones.
>
> After changing it to 1, I just had the following exchange with passwd:
>
> Enter the new password (minimum of 1, maximum of 8 characters)
> Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
> New password: a
> Bad password: a palindrome. Try again.
> New password: abc
> Bad password: too simple. Try again.
>
> How do I disable those checks?
>
add user as usual,compile code below with your "short" passwd
gcc a.c -lcrypt
and the manually edit /etc/passwd with output
#include <crypt.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int
main( void ) {
printf("%s\n",crypt("superpasswd","iQ"));
return 0;
}
OK
