Re: Allowing weak passwords

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Oleg Krivosheev said:
> add user as usual,compile code below with your "short" passwd
> gcc a.c -lcrypt
> 
> and the manually edit /etc/passwd with output

Thanks, but at that point, it's even worse than telling them to login as root
so they can override the bad password warning.  I'm looking for something
that someone with no knowledge of things like /etc/passwd or /bin/su can use
to just walk up to the computer and say, "Today, I want my password to be
'blue'" and have it accepted without complaint.  Remember, this is for an
appliance-type system that is intended to be used by people who have to be
told where the "any" key is.  (OK, none of them are quite that bad...)
Security is not an issue; the entire reason for them logging in instead of
just having init spawn MP3 players an various ttys automatically is so that
each person can have their own collection of playlists.  (Now that I think
about it, allowing logins with no password prompt at all would be ideal, but
I suspect that's a little more difficult to arrange...)

I would expect that this can be done without having to compile a custom
passwd.  Am I wrong in that assumption?

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