Hi, The -o option of the passwd command (in Debian 1.1 - don't know about 1.2) disables all checks. Hacking poppassd to call passwd with the -o option should be trivial.
E.- > This is a very tricky problem. poppassd is a small app that calls passwd > to change the password. Well, it passes some arguments to passwd and > expects some responses from it. All very fine. Now, the newer debians use > a passwd program that does a few checks on the password. If the > new password is too similar to the old one, or if it is too short, or if > it has too many repeated characters, etc. it will issue an error message > and prompt you for a new (hopefully better) password. poppassd was not > desinged to deal with this. It just waits for passwd to issue the prompt > "re-enter new password" while password is saying "too simple: try again". > Try entering a very random, 8 chars password to see if it works. To solve > your problem, you must try to find a passwd program that doesn't do these > checks (at the expense of security) or hack poppassd to be smarter. I > don't know if debian has a simpler passwd program. > > Hope this helps, > Nelson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]