Thanks for your support but my real problem is Linux's password policy that
won't allow but only 5% of my users passwords. I need to lower the security
so it doesn't complaint about how terrible they are and rejects them.
Asking the users to change their passwords is really out of the question
right now because of the time frame in which I have to do this. You see,
most of my users are on vacation right now so they are not available.
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: RE: [expert] Password issues
> I can offer you no advice per se, but I applaud your moxy. Good luck.
> Hey...let me think. In bash, maybe try something like this?
>
> for account in users.file
> do
> $userName = (awk statement)
> $passWord = (awk statement)
>
> useradd $userName -s /dev/null
> echo $passWord | passwd --stdin $userName
>
> done
>
> I know lots is missing, but it might be a start. Or, just tell them all
that
> they compromise company security and need to fix it, dammit. : )
>
> Derek Stark
> IT / Linux Admin
> eSupportNow
> xt 8952
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jorge Ramírez Llaca
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Password issues
>
>
> I'm in the process of migrating all my NT servers to Linux Mandrake 7.2
>
> Currently, there's a PDC holding all the user's network folders and a
couple
> of SDC's running a variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, web
> cache, printing, etc.
>
> All my users authenticate against the NT domain. So far I think i've got
> this covered. I already cracked all my users passwords (using l0phtcrack
> 2.52). Right now I'm in the process of writing a couple of migration
scripts
> that will add the users, first to Linux and then to Samba 2.07, then move
> all the files from the NT file server to the Mandrake server and finally
> their mailboxes to a second Mandrake server. After taking the the NT PDC
> offline I'll reconfigure Samba to act as a PDC on the file server and as a
> SDC on the mail server.
>
> If all goes well, my users won't notice the change. Or at least that's my
> goal,a completely transparent migration experience (at least for them).
>
> My problem is that some of my users have very weak passwords and Mandrake
> won't allow them. I intend to address that issue sometime soon but I need
to
> migrate them ASAP. So the question is: How do I instruct Mandrake to
accept
> whaterver silly thing the users have chosen as their password.
>
> Can anyone help me please?
>
>
>
>
>
