I do not have a problem but just a question.
I there a way to setup a user using a short password? All the user passwords have to be at least 6 characters long, I want to have one only three or four characters long, can this be done of is it something that I have to live with? I don't want to try and change something I can't. Thanks.
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Short password? "SOLVED"
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Re: Short password?
Hello,
What you are trying to do is, of course, very insecure.
See par. 4.11.2 at the following url:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/ch04s11.en.html#auth-pam
What you are trying to do is, of course, very insecure.
See par. 4.11.2 at the following url:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/ch04s11.en.html#auth-pam
Re: Short password? "SOLVED"
Thanks Aki, it is only for my wife and myself and we didn't need the long passwords on our Destro.
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Re: Short password? "SOLVED"
Long passwords with non-alphabetical components are of course more secure. I admit though to using a super-secret 4 character password, non dictionary, but I'm behind a router with firewall active on maximum settings and using NAT. Router itself has a long admin password.
I think the passwd command doesn't sanitise so you can change to a short password using it.
Of course XKCD has a good take on this :
I think the passwd command doesn't sanitise so you can change to a short password using it.
Of course XKCD has a good take on this :
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Re: Short password? "SOLVED"
with systemd autologin and a fully configured polkit I never type in a password. Well, almost, there's that one to decrypt the disk, and any time the operation involves a eth port.
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Re: Short password? "SOLVED"
Do you have a link to how to fully configure polkit?
I have one polkit tweak to allow Dolphin to mount all local drives without password, but otherwise use the old-fashioned way to escalate privileges.
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Re: Short password? "SOLVED"
I do not.
First check what can be configured
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$ pkaction -l
Then add whatever you'd like to the pkla file you made with root.
The list keeps growing. Some older things need updated with a pkaction, so limited.