[K12OSN] Need to lower password complexity

[John Hawley]

And you could check out what's in /etc/pam.d/common-passwd.  Having only 
a line like this:

password   required   pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5

.. allows simple passwords.  Alternately, if the 'cracklib' stuff is 
instead enabled, this would cause the system to disallow words that are 
too simple, or found in a dictionary, etc.

~jh


Peter Hartmann wrote:
> webmin let's you make passwords with no minimum lenght.  I like to
> make the second graders passwords a bit easier.
>
> Peter
>
> On 9/14/06, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
>> Loosen them up how?  Make them shorter?  Actually, they don't need to 
>> be very complex.
>> I've had good luck telling people to just put three words together, 
>> perhaps throw in a
>> number, like so:
>>
>> dogcatgoat
>> happy2day
>> king4aday
>>
>> If they are too young to handle passwords like this--which seems 
>> doubtful if they're
>> using the passwd command--then consider using a kiosk setup and do 
>> away with logins all
>> together.
>>
>> Minimum password length is set in /etc/login.defs in the PASS_MIN_LEN 
>> key.  The default
>> is five characters.  But if you change this to a lesser number, I 
>> would argue you're
>> asking for trouble, as short passwords can be easy to crack.
>>
>> Petre
>>
>>
>> Jim Anderson wrote:
>> > I would like to be able to lower password complexity when a user is
>> > using passwd to change their password.  The password change 
>> restrictions
>> > are too high for the population I'm working with.  Apparently when 
>> using
>> > passwd a new password has to be very complex.  I need to loosen up the
>> > complexity requirements but I don't know how.
>>
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