passwd based on dictionary word

[henryst]

I wanna change my password and it keeps telling me that it is based on a dictionary word. If I try to remove:

"password required lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3"

from /etc/pam.d/passwd then I get"

"(current) UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered"

What can I do? It's my stupid little home computer. If somebody breaks into, well let them have fun looking at my Ferret pictures, but I want to choose a particular password, how do I do this? :mad:

I think what really sucks is that all the front-ends to passwd make it seem like you are actually changing your password(although the command is failing). :confused:

[manux]

that's just a warning. if you still want to use that password, retype it. don't change it it'll accept it the second time you type it in.

[debiandude]

I can't really think of a workaround but it would make you password much harder to crack and stuff and its not that hard to change a normal word into an acceptable one:

add some punctationa and symbols:
eg here is my old password - gEt%l0zt!

or another good way is to take a like of poety or a famos quote and use the first letters:
once upon a midnight dreary:
ouamd

[henryst]

The problem is that I like to have a few passwords for the ton of places that I have to have a password, and currently none of my other passwords work on my machine.

Oh, as for the first suggestion, it is only a "warning" for root. You can ignore it as root, but not as a user(even if you try running passwd username as root). I don't know what the deal is.

[ 22 February 2001: Message edited by: henryst ]

[ph34r]

Try using one strange character in the password somewhere. So if your password is "password", then try

p4ssword
p4ssw0rd
^password^

or something like that