Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:29:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: pstewart <pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixed Case Passwords Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980211102918.1284J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980211142828.10866@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. > You can't just type the password again to force it? I've used that procedure before... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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