Password issues

[john maclean]

On 06/09/2012 06:21 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> Just a rant, nothing more. I know the solution.
>
> I like Linux (Fedora in particular) because my computer doesn't tell 
> me what I can and can not do - I tell the computer what to do.
>
> Today, I decide to change my own user password into something that's 
> easier to type (through the settings -> user accounts dialogue). 
> Lovely feature has this thing; I want to set on my own computer a 
> password of my liking, and I am in charge of that, okay? Stupid machine!
>
> "Error: The password is too simple, please choose another one!"
>
> Well fark me! Me not liking that at all. This computer holds few 
> important things, this computer is under lock and key - it's harder to 
> get to it than to crack a decent password so why the fark would I want 
> a difficult password???
> I understand the rationale behind this error message, but I don't 
> believe it's the government's duty to protect the stupid from harm. If 
> you willingly go against all common sense and die, well - it's your 
> own stupid farking fault. And so I don't believe the dev's of Fedora, 
> or Gnome, or anyone else is responsible for people dumb enough to 
> stick an easy to guess password in their bank account. If I lose my 
> money because my password is too easy to hack, there's nobody to blame 
> but me.
> Advice is great; thank you ("Users and Groups" dialogue) for warning 
> me that my password is too weak - do you really want to take that 
> risk? Yes, please - my own responsibility.
>
> Anyway, there is an easy workaround. And this is the first thing I 
> encounter in F17 that irks me. For the rest - I absolutely adore it. 
> Love it. Great. Everything is getting better all the time.Thank you 
> for this great OS, with a feature built in to protect people who are 
> too stupid to own a computer.
> I mean, if you're smart enough to step away from Windoze and are able 
> to familiarize yourself with any flavour of Linux, I'm certain you've 
> heard of clever passwords. If I wanted a nanny, I'd get a sexy one - 
> not a digital one.
>
> Thank you for reading. Have a good day.
>

You can always ignore the warning.

Let's give this new user a password of "1234"

[jayeola at x40 ~]$ sudo su -
[root at x40 ~]# adduser somedude
[root at x40 ~]# passwd somedude
Changing password for user somedude.
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is too short
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.