For my day to day job I do a lot of software demos. Lately I've been
using a Redhat system running in a VMWare image. I just got a new system
that has some cool demos in it and I want to change all the passwords to
be the same thing as the usernames. I realize this is going to shock a
lot of folks, but it is a demo system and it is a VMWare instance, so I
can always go back to the source VM if things get mucked up.
Right now when I type passwd I get:
Changing password for user root.
New UNIX password: (I type root here)
BAD PASSWORD: it is too short
etc.
For some reason all my google searches are telling me how to modify the
LDAP directory and how to secure systems instead of making them 'unsecure'.
I know this goes against everything that everyone believes in, but can
someone give me a quick and dirty way to set the root password to root
and a user account password to the user name without having passwd barf?
(I think I'm asking how to shut off PAM.)
<Begin reason because someone will ask>
When you are in the throws of a demo it's sometimes hard to remember
what the password is for a particular account. If you are using a GUI
(web browser, X, etc.), it's very easy to copy and paste a username into
a password field. When you have to type a username/password pair then
you have the username already in your 'finger buffer' so it becomes very
easy to type the password. Some of the software I demo takes a bit to do
authentication and I like to turn away from the screen and talk about
other things while I'm logging in. It's always a bummer to spend a
minute or two talking to the crowd and then turn around expecting to see
a great portal/web page and instead see: INVALID PASSWORD. Whatever
point you were trying to make during that two minute segment was
probably missed because folks in the crowd were saying "Hmmm, this guy
can't even remember the passwords to his system, he probably has no idea
what he is talking about..."
<End reason>
Thanks,
Rich
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