On 4/4/06, Brad Johnson <bjohnson independence k12 ia us> wrote:
Fedora
requires them to create a strong password. Is there any
way I
can
avoid the strong password, and allow them to choose whatever
they want?
This can be set through pam. I don't have an FC4 box around right now
but here are the generic instructions: First look in /etc/pam.d/
passwd
If you see a line about cracklib then this is the file you need to
edit.
If not you probably see lines that have pam_stack system-auth or
include
system-auth or similar. If that is true then you need to
edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth. There should be a line about cracklib in
there. You can add arguments to the line that enable less secure
passwords.
The two documentation files you'll want to look at are
/usr/share/doc/pam-VERSION/txts/README.pam_cracklib (which has a short
description of every pam_cracklib option)
and /usr/share/doc/pam-VERSION/txts/pam.txt (which has some useful
examples. Search within the file for cracklib and you'll find them.)
Whenever editing pam files be careful. Pam is a modular system for
authentication. If you make a mistake you could find yourself
unable to
login/su/etc. At minimum, you'll want to 1) make a copy of the files
you plan on editing so you can quickly restore them. 2) stay logged in
as root on a terminal until you have verified that you can go to a
different terminal and login as yourself and su to root.
-Toshio