From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 11:29:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29503 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oncomdis.on.ca (root@oncomdis.on.ca [204.101.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29453 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:29:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca) Received: from localhost (pstewart@localhost) by oncomdis.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA08813; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:14:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:14:48 -0500 (EST) From: pstewart To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixed Case Passwords In-Reply-To: <19980211142828.10866@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got it... passwd will let me... you just need to tell it AGAIN and it will allow you to do it.. this is what was throwing me off..:) -- Out the modem, through the SPARC, down the T3, off the router, past the frame-relay... nothing but Net. 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. > > Greg > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message