Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-27 Thread pilip
CTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of pilip Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: allowing short passwords yes sir, i could actually go with any password lesser than 5 but im trying to aim for a single char. only root can change the passwrds of users

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
did that before asking here, try logging on as that user or just 'su -' to that user and change your password to another single char password. it won't allow that user to change it Bret Hughes wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:52, pilip wrote: like what i've stated.secu

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
yes sir, i could actually go with any password lesser than 5 but im trying to aim for a single char. only root can change the passwrds of users to a single char but ordinary users can't change their passwords to single characters. im on rh8.0 too. maybe a prayer will do it :D Buck wrote: Philip

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
's just as insecure as if it were on a network. On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, pilip wrote: it's a testing environment. i don't need security on a stand alone machine that's underneath my table. :) Mike Burger wrote: In all honesty, if you value the security of your system, you don&

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
it's not on a networked environment sir, i know this is possible in linux (to use single character passwords) i just need to know how to do it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:53:47AM +0800, pilip wrote: how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short pass

Re: allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
it's a testing environment. i don't need security on a stand alone machine that's underneath my table. :) Mike Burger wrote: In all honesty, if you value the security of your system, you don't. On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, pilip wrote: Good day, how do you allow the use of shor

allowing short passwords

2003-01-26 Thread pilip
Good day, how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short passwords as in single character passwords. I've tried making changes to '/etc/login.defs' and to the pam config '/etc/pam.d/system-auth' to no avail. thanks in advance -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAI

Re: mounting CDrom

2002-12-11 Thread pilip
Try doing a hardlink, dont use the '-s' option. rm -f /dev/cdrom ln /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom zahidul islam wrote: I am a new user of LINUX and I am having a problem with mounting my CDROM in redhat 7.2. the cdrom is connected as slave with ide1, that most probly refers to hdd=cdrom, right. Now afte

Re: mount ntfs?

2002-12-11 Thread pilip
based on what i know, the default kernel of 8.0 doesn't have ntfs support enabled.that means you'll still have to recompile the kernel to have ntfs support. Though, you can check out this site: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html you no longer need to recompile the kernel to have

Re: Enable - startx

2002-12-09 Thread pilip
Edit '/etc/inittab' and change: id:3:initdefault: to: id:5:initdefault: Alex Chooi wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me how to configure make the red-hat direct to desktop instead everytime i need to type startx on text mode? -- the first time is always the best -- redhat-list mailing list u

Re: Telnet

2002-12-09 Thread pilip
chkconfig telnet on IS Department wrote: How do you enable Telnet on a RH 8.0 system? Thanks -- the first time is always the best -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list