"James C. Bevier" wrote:
>
> You can go into the /etc/pam.d/passwd file and add the line:
>
> auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so
>
> This will allow root to set any password for a user. This
> relaxes the test for the password provided. This will only
> work for root. Users setting passwords will remain the same.
> This line must be the first rule in the file.
Um, this doesn't actually work. 'root' already has the right to set any
password he chooses. PAM, however, will tell you that there was "no
password specified" if you attempt to use a zero length password.
According to the docs, you'd have to at least recompile cracklib and pam
to support passwords shorter than 4 characters, and I'm not sure that
even that would work (for zero length passwords).
MSG
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