Re: Allowing weak passwords

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> Ben Collins said:
> > Edit /etc/login.defs and modify the minimum password length config.
> 
> That allows _short_ passwords, but not _weak_ ones.
> 
> After changing it to 1, I just had the following exchange with passwd:
> 
> Enter the new password (minimum of 1, maximum of 8 characters)
> Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
> New password: a
> Bad password: a palindrome.  Try again.
> New password: abc
> Bad password: too simple.  Try again.
> 
> How do I disable those checks?
> 

add user as usual,compile code below with your "short" passwd
gcc a.c -lcrypt

and the manually edit /etc/passwd with output

#include <crypt.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int
main( void ) {

  printf("%s\n",crypt("superpasswd","iQ"));

  return 0;
}


OK