On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:49:57AM +0800, Liew Toh Seng wrote: > how to do that. deleting the dictionaries is not the right way to accomplish what you want. what you want to do is disable the strength checking module for the passwd service. edit /etc/pam.d/passwd you will find a line referring to pam_cracklib.so most likely, this is what is forcing users to not use foolish, guessable, insecure, unsafe passwords, remove this line to allow users to be stupid. also if pam_unix.so has the `obscure' argument remove that as well. result would look something like this: #%PAM-1.0 # The PAM configuration file for the Shadow `passwd' service password required pam_unix.so nullok md5 do be aware that allowing users to pick stupid passwords will all but guarentee intruder access to your systems by way of guessed passwords, if your in a non-networked environment this may not be an issue however. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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