Go to /etc/pam.d/passwd and comment out the line:
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
This should stop the checking against cracklib.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jorge Ramírez Llaca wrote:
- Thanks for your support but my real problem is Linux's password policy that
- won't allow but only 5% of my users passwords. I need to lower the security
- so it doesn't complaint about how terrible they are and rejects them.
- Asking the users to change their passwords is really out of the question
- right now because of the time frame in which I have to do this. You see,
- most of my users are on vacation right now so they are not available.
-
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: "D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:34 PM
- Subject: RE: [expert] Password issues
-
-
- > I can offer you no advice per se, but I applaud your moxy. Good luck.
- > Hey...let me think. In bash, maybe try something like this?
- >
- > for account in users.file
- > do
- > $userName = (awk statement)
- > $passWord = (awk statement)
- >
- > useradd $userName -s /dev/null
- > echo $passWord | passwd --stdin $userName
- >
- > done
- >
- > I know lots is missing, but it might be a start. Or, just tell them all
- that
- > they compromise company security and need to fix it, dammit. : )
- >
- > Derek Stark
- > IT / Linux Admin
- > eSupportNow
- > xt 8952
- >
- > -----Original Message-----
- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jorge Ramírez Llaca
- > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:21 PM
- > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- > Subject: [expert] Password issues
- >
- >
- > I'm in the process of migrating all my NT servers to Linux Mandrake 7.2
- >
- > Currently, there's a PDC holding all the user's network folders and a
- couple
- > of SDC's running a variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, web
- > cache, printing, etc.
- >
- > All my users authenticate against the NT domain. So far I think i've got
- > this covered. I already cracked all my users passwords (using l0phtcrack
- > 2.52). Right now I'm in the process of writing a couple of migration
- scripts
- > that will add the users, first to Linux and then to Samba 2.07, then move
- > all the files from the NT file server to the Mandrake server and finally
- > their mailboxes to a second Mandrake server. After taking the the NT PDC
- > offline I'll reconfigure Samba to act as a PDC on the file server and as a
- > SDC on the mail server.
- >
- > If all goes well, my users won't notice the change. Or at least that's my
- > goal,a completely transparent migration experience (at least for them).
- >
- > My problem is that some of my users have very weak passwords and Mandrake
- > won't allow them. I intend to address that issue sometime soon but I need
- to
- > migrate them ASAP. So the question is: How do I instruct Mandrake to
- accept
- > whaterver silly thing the users have chosen as their password.
- >
- > Can anyone help me please?
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
-
-
-
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