On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Alan Mead wrote:

> At 01:09 PM 2/24/00 , Romain Kang wrote:
> >How do we disable (or weaken) cracklib so that people can use silly
> >passwords?


in /etc/pam.d/passwd :

password   required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 difok=3 \
                    dcredit=2 ocredit=2


That will weaken password strength checking. The better solution is to
tell the user to take better passwords.

> 
> I don't know and I think it's silly to do so....  A quick solution would be 
> to open a root window on console and let them file in and set silly 
> passwords as root.
> ---


        Igmar


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