Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:50:51 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Avoid passwd rules in FreeBSD-2.2.7-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199907141550.IAA20317@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:21:55 BST." <378CAB13.1F9FDA8D@csl.com>
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>Another password-type question from me today! > >not connected to the previous question tho: > >passwd seems to insist (even when root), on enforcing a rule >about not allowing all lower-case passwords. I have grepped >/etc/login.conf and didn't see anything (man passwd says it >uses /etc/login.cap(5), but it ain't there on my system). > >Also, man passwd seems to imply the lower case rule is >inherent to passwd - is this the case, and if not, how can I >avoid the restriction? > >(Please, no lectures on why the rule is a Good Thing - the >person who wants this password is more "important" than me). As root, specify the same (non-conforming) password twice and it will be accepted the second time. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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