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noobcoffee
Asked: 2024-10-14 21:20:59 +0800 CST

Set a simple password less than 8 characters

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I wanted to set a password less than 8 characters actually a 4 simple digit password. Just like we do in fedora- sudo passwd lamy I am searching for an alternative to that to do the same in ubuntu 24.10.

current output for passwd

login

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Elevate your privileges using sudo.

    eg. my username ($USER) is guiverc so I could do that via

    guiverc@d7050-next:~$   sudo passwd guiverc
[sudo] password for guiverc: 
New password: 
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully

    I just typed my shorter password in twice (I used four letters; being the passwd I use often in QA I mentioned in comment) and it worked.

    My system is currently using oracular or 24.10, as the next development release isn't setup fully yet, so this was tested on 24.10 too.

    The BAD PASSWORD message is thus a warning that can be ignored...

    You could also use sudo password $USER if you didn't know your username, but I just typed guiverc in my test.

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