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.
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