On December 8, 2014 1:12:16 AM CET, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> On December 8, 2014 12:05:30 AM CET, Ingo Schwarze ><schwa...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> >CVSROOT: /cvs >> >Module name: src >> >Changes by: schwa...@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/12/07 16:05:30 >> > >> >Modified files: >> > share/man/man8 : afterboot.8 >> > >> >Log message: >> >Since rev. 1.1, we discouraged space characters in passwords >> >but even after repeated enquiries on misc@, nobody can explain why, >> >so tedu the two confusing words; ok tedu@. >> >> Why do we recommend changing the root password there at all? I >suspect some horribly outdated historical reason, but I don't see the >point of that part at all. > >Why recommend anything at all?
Rereading the page (it's been a looong time since, if ever) I feel a lot of it is already handled in the installer (nowadays anyway). However, if this isn't relevant to the purpose of the page, I'll drop the subject. /Alexander > >The idea behind this page is to have (1) a page we can point at which >(2) contains a few recommendations, so that (3) the users of the >system can start thinking about management, and maybe we can pray they >think there are best practices... > >The main problem with this page is ensuring that developers don't add >fluff to it as time goes by.
