On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:14:23PM -0700, Heinz Wittenbecher wrote:

> Vic, excellent try but it seems to have no effect at all.
> 
> Mandrake still insits it's BAD PASSWORD, way too short (even though longer
> than specified)
> 
> and also complains if I use names or words it finds as "dictionary words".
> 
> I'm going to try another install as I seem to recall there may've been some
> password options during install that I missed.

If it complains of a bad password, it's just a warning.  It will
still ask you to re-enter the password and you can still put in your
bad dictionary-based password and it will accept it.

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