On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 12:38 -0400, Garry Williams wrote: > The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine? > Since when? > > I wanted to assign a temporary password for a new user and then do > > sudo passwd -e ppatel > > to force it to be changed. For the new user, enforcing password > complexity is, I guess, OK. But for root? If any user should need the enforcement of good passwords, it's the root user. If your PC was on a LAN where crackers can have a go at you, this could be very important. It does not take long for someone to mess up a system if they can get in. It's better to be safe than sorry. To me the obvious thing is to simply pick a better password. e.g. Just make it two words long instead of one. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 18 17:15:30 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
