Philip, Are you having one of those, "I just need an answer" days? I set one users password to 4 characters in mine for testing purposes. As root, I changed the password and it fussed, but it took it.
I am using RH 8.0, btw. Good luck, Buck -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of pilip Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: allowing short passwords 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] > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
