Hi,
i noticed something weird (or perhaps i am), when i change my root
password with passwd and chose something like beroot, he complains
about the existance of the username inside the passphrase, but cause
i am root, i can retype and it seems that he change it the way i want.
But i am not able
It comes up with a message saying that it's an invalid password, because
it
contains your username, but it's just a warning. Because you're root, you
can do whatever the hell you like, and it will let you. If you tried to do
the same thing as a non-root user, it WONT let you use that
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Marc Logemann wrote:
i noticed something weird (or perhaps i am), when i change my root
password with passwd and chose something like beroot, he complains
about the existance of the username inside the passphrase, but cause
i am root, i can retype and it seems that he
he doesnt complain about the existance of the string root inside your
passphrase? I am using a little older version but this should not be the
problem.
no, it does. but then it says that
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
if I insist on the password beroot. What
This is what I get when I change root's password to beroot.
[root@munshine /root]# passwd
New UNIX password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on your username
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully
After that I can login using that password and change
