On Saturday, November 2, 2019 5:56:53 AM EDT Tim via users wrote: > 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.
I was setting a (temporary) password for another user -- not setting the root password. But I guess your comment helps me to understand why these changes happen. I cannot be trusted to operate my machine safely without someone else's help. I may harm myself, so I am not allowed to set a (temporary) password to whatever I want. I probably shouldn't be allowed to type the rm command without some sort of "are you sure?" warning either. Sigh. -- 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
