Re: Poppasswd
Hi,
The -o option of the passwd command (in Debian 1.1 - don't know about 1.2)
disables all checks. Hacking poppassd to call passwd with the -o
option should be trivial.
E.-
> This is a very tricky problem. poppassd is a small app that calls passwd
> to change the password. Well, it passes some arguments to passwd and
> expects some responses from it. All very fine. Now, the newer debians use
> a passwd program that does a few checks on the password. If the
> new password is too similar to the old one, or if it is too short, or if
> it has too many repeated characters, etc. it will issue an error message
> and prompt you for a new (hopefully better) password. poppassd was not
> desinged to deal with this. It just waits for passwd to issue the prompt
> "re-enter new password" while password is saying "too simple: try again".
> Try entering a very random, 8 chars password to see if it works. To solve
> your problem, you must try to find a passwd program that doesn't do these
> checks (at the expense of security) or hack poppassd to be smarter. I
> don't know if debian has a simpler passwd program.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Nelson
> lago@that.com.br
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