Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I'm setting up a Linux box as an MP3 jukebox for a (technically >non-sophisticated) friend to use at her dance studio. We've decided that >we'll want to have separate login accounts for each instructor, but I don't >want passwd forcing them to come up with 'good' passwords - the box isn't >going to be on a network and won't have any sensitive information on it >anyhow.
If you think of having insecure passwords, it might actually be better to have no passwords at all - weak passwords give a false sense of security that some people could rely on one day. If you run passwd as root (run "passwd foo" to set the password for the user foo), it doesn't enforce the checks for a weak password, just warns about them. If you give it an empty password (just press Return at the password prompt), it removes the password completely - the system doesn't even ask the users for it. -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
