Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:28:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: pstewart <pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixed Case Passwords Message-ID: <19980211142828.10866@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980210190656.4369A-100000@oncomdis.on.ca>; from pstewart on Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 07:07:24PM -0500 References: <19980211084604.30033@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.3.93.980210190656.4369A-100000@oncomdis.on.ca>
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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
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