[3085] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Fascist PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Wed Nov 6 22:41:41 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:06:01 CST."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:39:27 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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Your message on: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:06:01 CST
>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!
As near as I can tell, you can't do it. I'll look into it now,
because you're right, there are times when folks *should* be able
to do this.
--Donnie
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