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- From: davidb@hpuadla.aus.hp.com (David Booth)
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:02:59 GMT
- Subject: Re: Password without special characters?
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- Mike Killoran (killoran@ll.mit.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Is there a way around HP's requirement that all passwords
- : have a number or special character in them? I have found that using
-
- Not that I know of. If you find one, let me know.
-
- : SAM, one may change the password to any string. This isn't what I'm
- : looking for though. I want users to be able to enter a password
- : without any intervention by the sys admin. It seems as though
- : different requirements for passwords should be a configurable thing,
- : like password expiration.
-
- This is based on "euid" - root can change anyones password to anything,
- special characters or no. SAM is a red herring here; as root you can do
- the same change through the passwd(1) command.
-
- The restrictions come into play if you run passwd(1) as non-superuser
- (which, one expects, would normally be true for most users).
- :
- : Mike Killoran
- : killoran@ll.mit.edu
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