On 8/21/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:11:32PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:56:48PM +0530, Rahul wrote: > Sadly, since root is immune to the poor-password checks, and since common > sense is, um, well, not-so, "system compromised via incredibly poor password > choice" is something I've seen more often than I'd like to. The cure is not to disallow features, but use right passwords. If I recall well poor passwords can be set by root, but there is a warning (at least when set with passwd).
Not when during installation however, it used to be, back in the RH x.x days, but it go removed for reasons I am not sure.
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