How do I use simple passwords?
Hi, I have Fedora 20 and while installation, I never chose a password for my user account and this is an administrator account. I never needed a password because every time my PC boots, we have to enter a HDD password and I never had a need for my password. Recently I installed KDE and for logging into KDE environment, Gnome will not allow us to choose it until we chose a username, but since mine doesn't have a password, it immediately logs me in. So I am not able to choose between the Desktop environments.
So I finally decided to choose a password for this machine. It is a desktop and everyone in home use this, so I do not want to set a complicated, but some simple ones like "one" or "madam", but it will not allow it saying that it failed dictionary test or palindrome.
So I had to choose a very complex password.
Now I found different methods to switch between DEs, but I am left with this complex password. Is there anyway to remove it or change it to a simple one.
(I have enabled auto login, but still I had to enter pw several times like for unlocking keyring, installing a app via terminal and several other tasks. )
Is there a way to disable this security feature that is not allowing me to set simple passwords?
Edit: I found this configuration file that has some rules, but I am not sure whether I can edit the file without causing any trouble. :
/etc/security/pwquality.conf
I could set the root password to "a" using the command
passwd
.The passwd does work quite well. I woul forego the "user" application and go this way. The "users"application required a godawful 12+ password and still failed I suggest that you find comand line code to add users or use the user app with the option for users to add a password on first login. then they should be able to uses that command and change it if they want to
Welcome to ask.fedora. That's an excellent question. As long as there's no way for an attacker to log on remotely (The telnet, ssh and other similar services aren't running.) a home computer probably doesn't need as strong a password as a database server for a major corporation. I don't know the answer, but I'm going to vote you up and give you some well deserved karma.
Hi, this might be the duplicate of https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/ques...
Indeed a duplicate. Merged.