On Friday, November 1, 2019 12:57:51 PM EDT Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/1/19 9:38 AM, Garry Williams wrote: > > When did this start? > > > > garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel > > Changing password for user ppatel. > > Have you changed your sudo settings? Why didn't it ask for your > user password?
Because just before that I typed sudo useradd ... and gave the password. > > The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his > > machine? Since when? > > You don't say what Fedora version you are running. This doesn't > happen for me on F30. I get the warnings about short or otherwise > bad passwords, but it lets it happen anyway. Oops, sorry. Yes, upgraded a week or two ago to F31. And yes, I used to get warnings as well. > > to force it to be changed. For the new user, enforcing password > > complexity is, I guess, OK. But for root? And why bail after > > three tries to get a compliant password? That seems capricious > > (not to mention irritating) to me. > > 3 retries is the usual thing. But for choosing a new password? Please. What on earth does that accomplish? -- Garry T. Williams _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
