how can I override passwd?

[Douglas Frank <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In setting up a user acct for myself, passwd refuses my favorite 
password because it includes a dictionary word.

Hell I've been using this same password here at work for years, it's the 
one I use all over the LAN and I don't feel like changing everywhere it 
to accomodate whichever graduate student Napoleon decided to make passwd 
use Linux_PAM.  If any of my colleagues care to crack it, I don't care. 
 I keep all my porn at home.

How can I override the password nanny temporarily?

thanks
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Douglas Frank
HP Co.
110 Spit Brook Rd.      Blessed are the Bewildered
Nashua, NH 03062 USA           for they won't notice