Re: Root Forced to Comply With Password Complexity Requirements

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On Saturday, November 2, 2019 5:56:53 AM EDT Tim via users wrote:
> 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.

I was setting a (temporary) password for another user -- not setting
the root password.

But I guess your comment helps me to understand why these changes
happen.  I cannot be trusted to operate my machine safely without
someone else's help.  I may harm myself, so I am not allowed to set a
(temporary) password to whatever I want.

I probably shouldn't be allowed to type the rm command without some
sort of "are you sure?" warning either.

Sigh.

-- 
Garry T. Williams


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