Humans as a whole are pretty horrible at remembering passwords that are a string of number and letters, so our tools often don't enforce significant complexity unless you change the defaults.
I am pretty sure that all it checks by default is if the password is at least 6 characters long and has a number in it and that it doesn't match your previous passord(s) You can update the complexity requirements by updating pam.d, but the directions and exact file are going to vary with whatever distro of linux you use. Purcell On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:43 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:26:33 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: > > >>From the command line I tried passwd, but it refused because it said > >the new password was too similar to the old one. OK, passwd program, I > >don't disagree, but just do it, and I mean it, 'k? > > Never mind. I finally succeeded. I'm still curious why passwd didn't > think the new password was too similar when I just appended '1.' Silly > program. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Darkness spoons with you. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
