From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 8:53:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF4314D4F for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:53:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA20317; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907141550.IAA20317@implode.root.com> To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Avoid passwd rules in FreeBSD-2.2.7-RELEASE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:21:55 BST." <378CAB13.1F9FDA8D@csl.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:50:51 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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