[3082] in RedHat Linux List
Fascist PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Lee Green)
Wed Nov 6 22:09:08 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:06:01 -0600
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: exec@prysm.net (Eric Lee Green)
Reply-To: exec@prysm.net
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Is anybody else starting to get seriously ticked off at the "fascist mode"
PAM password-checking?
Example: I have an anonymous UUCP site. I have a standard password for that
anonymous UUCP site: anon. Well, I just set up a new system with RedHat
4.0 and tried to set my "anonuucp" password to "anon" and guess what? No
dice! "Password too short."
Is there any way to turn off this fascist %!$#? (Guess I can go ahead and
go get the "passwd" program from 3.03, sigh).
"fascist.c" might keep the newbies from using stupid passwords, but gosh
darn it, some of us NEED stupid passwords!
-- Eric Lee Green
exec@prysm.net
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