Hi,
if you want to use a weak password for a user, change the password using
the roor user, he will get only a warning.
Btw, if you are talking about a weak password, don't tell everyone that
you are using this password on all of your systems :)
Cheers
Alex
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:21 -0500, Douglas Frank wrote:
> 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
> --
> Douglas Frank
> HP Co.
> 110 Spit Brook Rd. Blessed are the Bewildered
> Nashua, NH 03062 USA for they won't notice
>
>
>
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