On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:01:07PM -0800, Paul Reiber wrote: > > If only we could apply this "protect the user from themselves" mentality > to the "rm" program... > Enforcing a users password to be somewhat strong is protecting the system as well as the user. The system admin could care less if a *valid* user accidentally did "rm -rf ~/", but if your password is suddenly guessable by a cracker, then I'm sure the system admin will be very displeased. FYI, there are ways to tone down the password strength checks. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` bcollins@debian.org -- bcollins@openldap.org -- bcollins@linux.com ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
