passwords, etc.

[Ed Montgomery]

Regarding the note about the 'paranoid' password
filtering, etc.

Changing passwords as root does not involve any of the
'too short', 'too similar', etc. problems mentioned. 
Root, being god-like, can change any password to
anything.  For regular users, it is an education about
password security! :-)  (Since, in my experience, they
always ask me 'why?' ;-)).  However, if it really,
really bothers you, then why not simply remove the
filtering from the source code, recompile, and call
it, oh, I don't know, perhaps something like 'spasswd'
for 'simple password', and then you can customize it,
avoid problems mentioned, etc.

I.e., "Use the source, Luke!"



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