[102092] in RedHat Linux List
Re: How to do simple passwords
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Tue Dec 1 11:24:14 1998
Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>, <staetzsc@pictel.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 11:26:32 -0500
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
BTW, Steve. Could you send me a copy of your /etc/pam.d/login file? I've
been trying to get mine to refuse to accept bad passwords, but it accepts
them anyway. (It complains, but it still updates successfully.)
Thanks
--
Toby Herring
IS Coordinator
SyncroFlo, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred W. Noltie Jr. <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 11:02 AM
Subject: RE: How to do simple passwords
>
>
># -----Original Message-----
># From: Steven Taetzsch [mailto:staetzsc@pictel.com]
># Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 8:23 AM
># To: redhat-list@redhat.com
># Subject: How to do simple passwords
>#
>#
># How can I change the rules for passwords? I am running 5.1 on a home
># pc that is usually not connected to the outside world. When someone
># (like my kids) tries to change their password, it is rejected because
># it's like a dictionary word. They get very frustrated, and I don't
># care if it's like a dictionary word.
>
>
>I don't know how to do this, but I think that unless that pc is *never*
>connected to the outside world it would be dangerous to attempt to override
>this behavior.
>
>If you still want to do this, try using some unusual name (not your own).
>Better, have the child add a digit or some non-alpha character(s) to that
>dictionary word.
>
>Fred Noltie
>
>
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