Yah! it really makes me wondering too... anyway it expands the possibilities of guessing/getting the password, if your password is a single character, otherwise it will be more tougher if you assigned more than that unlike setting it on default 5 characters, if someone knows your def length they will just stick on it and not go under 5 chars. ;P
-JhAzEr- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
;) Try editing /etc/login.defs and change this field:
PASS_MIN_LEN 1
default value is 5 in Redhat 8.0. Hmmm, i wonder why you need a single
character password...
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 09:58, pilip wrote:
>
> Good day,
>
> how do you allow the use of short passwords in linux? short passwords as
> in single character passwords.
>
> thanks in advance
>
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