On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:53:29AM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I just files a bugzilla on this, but I wonder if others have observed > this behavior. I would assume that I was late and someone else noticed > this. In FC4test3 the passwd program returns Bad passwd messages at > inappropriate times. For example: > the passwd: lkd45j returns: Bad passwd: it is too simple. > What is too simple about that passwd? > the passwd: fgk08p returns: Bad passwd: passwd based on (reversed) > dictionary word. > > Now you puzzle players out there. What word is fgk08p based on? > I know it is the fgk that is doing it but I don't know why. > This is very annoying. > -- > Since no one is responding let me give you information I got from redhat. 6 character passwds are considered too short. If a passwd entered contains 4 letters the same as a word in the dictionary (I assume in the same order that gives the above error about the dictionary work, I still can't see what word fgk08p corresponds to but I notice that the first three letters in a permutation of that passwd fkg08p might correspond to a well known word. I think their algorithm is broken but they will not admit it, so if this is not bothering anyone else I will give up. -- ======================================================================= It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx