Getting Around Password Guidelines

[Charles Carraher]

We have an account in which the 8-character password is desired to be 8 specific alpha characters. I am unable to reset the password to this specific password. How do I get around the security guidelines of at least 1-non-alpha character?

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
You may have to use the modprpw cmd or with sam by setting to the specific user its security policy...

Good luck

Victor

[Rita C Workman]

If your root (or have superuser rights) you can set the passwd to whatever you want.

Root/superuser is not required to comply with the rules when changing passwords...as is the normal user.

Just a thought,

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Charles

Do you run a trusted system if so this may be your problem:-

Ordinary users can change only the password corresponding to their own
login name. If there is an old password, passwd prompts for it. Then
it prompts for the new password twice. The first time the new
password is entered, passwd checks to see if the old password has
"aged" sufficiently. If "aging" is insufficient, the new password is
rejected and passwd terminates; see passwd(4).

See man passwd.

HTH

Paula

[Dan Hetzel · Accepted solution]

Charles,

If you're running a trusted system, even root has to comply to the password rules. On a non-trusted system, root can set a password to anything he likes.

Best regards,

Dan

[Camilo Ernesto Mendoza]

Well another way around this unconvert the system change the password and convert the system back.