On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:13:49 +0000 (GMT) John Hodrien <johnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Chadley Wilson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 17:03, Alan Peery wrote: > >> Eric Tanguy wrote: > >>> I need to create an account for a child on my machine and for that > >i need>> to make a very simple password. But when i try to do that > >the system>> answer that this password is based on a dictionay word > >and refuse to do>> it. So how it is possible to assign a simple > >passwd to just one account ?>> Thanks > >>> Eric > >> > >> For a young child this may be the wrong choice entirely. I would > >> consider setting the machine to auto-logon, and start the GUI > >session as> that user. This allows you to keep a good, non-crackable > >password on> the machine for their account, so that it is hard to > >crack open that> machine via the network. > >> > >> I am afraid that I don't know if there are hooks for auto-login in > >> Fedora Core... > >> > >> Alan > > > > Whats your child name and your surname? > > > > I did my sisters (who was 4 at the time like this) > > Create the user then reset the password as root. root is allowed to > set stupid passwords. > > Then assuming you're only exposing something like ssh, why not just > restrict which users can login through it: > > AllowUsers daddybear mummybear > > jh Or else disable ssh entirely on the machine if it's not being used. There are several ways to do that - easiest is to use ntsysv and turn off ssh so it doesn't start on bootup. cheers, Robert
