From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 19:59:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02822 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02631 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:58:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16924; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:28:29 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA20972; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:28:28 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980211142828.10866@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:28:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: pstewart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixed Case Passwords References: <19980211084604.30033@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from pstewart on Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 07:07:24PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 February 1998 at 19:07:24 -0500, pstewart wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tue, 10 February 1998 at 11:01:25 -0500, pstewart wrote: >>> Hi there... >>> >>> Is there a simple method of allowing all lowercase passwords into a >>> FreeBSD box? We have moved a bunch of web hosting accounts from a linux >>> box to a new FreeBSD box and the old passwords were all lower case and we >>> wish to keep them that way. >> >> I don't understand the question. FreeBSD allows all lower case >> passwords. It's not a good idea, of course. > > Hmmmm... I just tried it via ADDUSER (forgot to mention that) and it > wouldn't allow it.. I'll have to try it again..:) Yes, I've just checked. FreeBSD has no problems with all-lower-case passwords, but the passwd program won't let you do it. If you *really* want to do it this way, you'll have to hack /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd/local_passwd.c. It's pretty trivial. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message