changing the login password's requirement

Steffen Kluge kluge at fujitsu.com.au
Tue Apr 19 06:12:00 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:55 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
>  I want that whoever tries to use either su - for any user and anybody
> tring to use root password has to enter that password twice.

What do you expect this to gain you? I mean, nobody enters a correct
password accidentally, at least not if it is of non-trivial length and
contains a good mix of characters. And if it is trivial, one can
probably recall what one just typed.

Cheers
Steffen.

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