it's not on a networked environment sir, i know this is possible in linux (to use single character passwords) i just need to know how to do it.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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]






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