setting password

PewpMaster · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: setting password

at the end of the install and it says type passwd to set it

then i get the New UNIX password: prompt

type in what i want and it tell me it is based on a dictionary word

is there a default password set already??? if so what is it?
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Earthwings · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject:

No. It just complains your password is too easy. The background is that it is very easy to crack passwords that can be found in a dictionary just by comparing the crypt() of every word in the dictionary with your crypted password found in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. You'd better choose a password with some special characters.

PewpMaster · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:27 pm Post subject:

oh... i see...
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subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

lol... the computers... they are smarter than us!

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PewpMaster · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject:

yeah linux is way smarter than me... it is taunting me constantly
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