Relaxing password policy

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Apr 10 17:19:14 UTC 2004


Am Sa, den 10.04.2004 schrieb Ian Pilcher um 19:04:

> I am trying to set up an account for my girlfriend on my FC1 box, and I
> can already tell that the default password policy is going to drive her
> insane.  (I've previously just gotten around it by su'ing to root and
> setting my passwords manually, but this won't work for her.)
> 
> How can I configure the password checking policy to be a little less
> stringent?

See /etc/pam.d/system-auth for the line calling pam_cracklib.so (of
course the comment at top of the file too).

But I do not recommend to change that policy! Better teach your
girlfriend how to create a good password. A good way is that she
memorizes a sentence, just as an example:

Love is a 4 letter word costs no $

Then create the password from it using the first letter of each word,
that makes:

Lia4lwcn$

Once in mind, never forgotten - but not trivial to crack :) 

> Thanks!

Alexander


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