While I understand the reasoning, it’s a bit annoying needing to set a secondary password in the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows instance. If you’re on a domain joined computer, or occasionally update your password like you should, there’s a reasonable chance that the password you use for Bash is different than the one you use for general access to your PC. In fact, it’s probably likely.<\/p>\n
Since I have a number of Windows boxes I frequently use, I wanted to create a password that while different from machine to machine, would be easy to remember (and not the same from machine to machine). However, the password I’d wanted to use didn’t always meet the default password requirements.<\/p>\n
So, here’s what I did. From the Bash prompt, I first\u00a0tried to change the password to see if my new password met the complexity and length requirements. If your password works, there’s no more to do!<\/p>\n
$ passwd<\/strong><\/pre>\nResults:<\/p>\n
(current) UNIX password:\r\nEnter new UNIX password:\r\nRetype new UNIX password:\r\nYou must choose a longer password<\/strong><\/pre>\nOK. So, I needed to change the requirements. I used the editor nano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
$ cd \/etc\/pam.d\/<\/strong>\r\n$ sudo nano common-password<\/strong><\/pre>\nTo save the file, use CTRL+O<\/strong> to write out changes, hit ENTER<\/strong>, then CTRL+X<\/strong> to Exit.<\/p>\n
Look for the line:<\/p>\n
password \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[success=1 default=ignore] \u00a0 \u00a0obscure \u00a0pam_unix.so sha512<\/pre>\nAnd replace it with (I removed obscure<\/strong> and added minlen=1<\/strong>):<\/p>\n
password \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[success=1 default=ignore] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0pam_unix.so sha512 minlen=1<\/pre>\nNow, try changing the password again using passwd<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
$ passwd\r\nChanging password for aaron.\r\n(current) UNIX password:\r\nEnter new UNIX password:\r\nRetype new UNIX password:\r\npasswd: password updated successfully<\/pre>\nDone.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Hopefully I’ll remember to look here the next time I set up Windows and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (gee, that’s a mouthful!). And more importantly, I won’t encounter this experience again:<\/p>\n
$ sudo apt-get update\r\n[sudo] password for aaron:\r\nSorry, try again.\r\n[sudo] password for aaron:\r\nSorry, try again.\r\n[sudo] password for aaron:\r\nSorry, try again.\r\nsudo: 3 incorrect password attempts<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While I understand the reasoning, it’s a bit annoying needing to set a secondary password in the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows instance. 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