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How to force a same password in Solaris in Solaris 8?

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I need to add a user "abcd" and set the password same as the user id. But Solaris 8 is not allowing me to do it, is there any way we can force the password to be same as the user id.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Code:

bash-3.00# cat /etc/release
                     Solaris 8 HW 7/03 s28s_hw3wos_05a SPARC
           Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                             Assembled 11 June 2003

New password (? for help):
That password cannot be used because it is based on your username.
Try a different password.

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This behaviour is controlled by the password policy configured in /etc/security/passwd

I think it is the NAMECHECK entry having a default value of YES.

However, this file will affect all users and for security I would suggest leaving the feature enabled.

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Thanks Leebix,
I cannot fine the /etc/security/passwd in my server and also i think vendor must have some kind of software running which is causing this issue.
Is there any other way on OS level to check and disable the service for a while Please?

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Thanks Leebix,
I cannot fine the /etc/security/passwd in my server and also i think vendor must have some kind of software running which is causing this issue.
Is there any other way on OS level to check and disable the service for a while Please?

Try:

/etc/default/passwd and set NAMECHECK=NO

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Thanks Verdepollo,
You may be surprise to know that it only has following entreis

Code:

bash-3.00# pwd
/etc/default


bash-3.00# more passwd
#ident  "@(#)passwd.dfl 1.3     92/07/14 SMI"
MAXWEEKS=
MINWEEKS=
PASSLENGTH=6

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hi all
I need to add a user "abcd" and set the password same as the user id. But Solaris 8 is not allowing me to do it, is there any way we can force the password to be same as the user id.

Just set abcd password as root, not abcd. Root isn't bound to these rules.

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thanks all for your input,
here is a quicker and simplier way for future as i have learnt today
Just copy the encrypted password from other server and paste it into the /etc/shadow file,
voilla................

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