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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO Unix password scheme sucks!
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.053037.2589@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Dec 90 05:30:37 GMT
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In article <662@hitachi.uucp> jon@hitachi.UUCP (Jon Ryshpan) writes:

>SysV Unix (at least Interactive) allows you to create a password
>without numerics or special chars for root or a system account at
>system initialization, but it won't allow a user account to have
>this kind of password.
>Explain that!

It's who is doing it, not the account that is being given the password
that makes the difference.  As usual, root is allowed to do anything
he wants.  If you are logged in as root you can give any user a password
without the check for content.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us