[3116] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Fascist PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Smith)
Thu Nov 7 03:18:53 1996
Date: 7 Nov 1996 09:10:02 -0000
From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
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CC: exec@prysm.net
In-reply-to: <199611070339.WAA30817@redhat.com> (message from Donnie Barnes on
Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:39:27 -0500)
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Eric Lee Green <exec@prysm.net> wrote:
> 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!
Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com> replied:
> 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.
On some systems, the passwd program bypasses all the facist checking if
it is run by root. This seems like the right thing to me. Although perhaps
you could argue that it should give a warning in that case.
Cheers,
Eric
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