Password

[Robert Storey]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:13:49 +0000 (GMT)
John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 17:03, Alan Peery wrote:
> >> Eric Tanguy wrote:
> >>> I need to create an account for a child on my machine and for that
> >i need>> to make a very simple password. But when i try to do that
> >the system>> answer that this password is based on a dictionay word
> >and refuse to do>> it. So how it is possible to assign a simple
> >passwd to just one account ?>> Thanks
> >>> Eric
> >>
> >> For a young child this may be the wrong choice entirely.  I would
> >> consider setting the machine to auto-logon, and start the GUI
> >session as> that user.  This allows you to keep a good, non-crackable
> >password on> the machine for their account, so that it is hard to
> >crack open that> machine via the network.
> >>
> >> I am afraid that I don't know if there are hooks for auto-login in
> >> Fedora Core...
> >>
> >> Alan
> >
> > Whats your child name and your surname?
> >
> > I did my sisters (who was 4 at the time like this)
> 
> Create the user then reset the password as root.  root is allowed to
> set stupid passwords.
> 
> Then assuming you're only exposing something like ssh, why not just
> restrict which users can login through it:
> 
> AllowUsers daddybear mummybear
> 
> jh

Or else disable ssh entirely on the machine if it's not being used.
There are several ways to do that - easiest is to use ntsysv and turn
off ssh so it doesn't start on bootup.

cheers,
Robert