On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:53:47AM +0800, pilip wrote: > 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.
Hi Pilip. root can set a user's passwd to anything you want, but...... DON'T DO IT !! Passwords this short are just a waste of the user's time at login. If you are going to have them that short you might as well not have any at all. Cracking 1 letter passwords is so easy it can be done by hand from the keyboard. Using any one of the many crack tools available would make it practically instantaneous. The man page for passwd will give you all the details. passwd [-k] [-l] [-u [-f]] [-d] [-S] [username] -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 2002. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://users.rcn.com/jkinz/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
