Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 8/21/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:11:32PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:56:48PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
> > Sadly, since root is immune to the poor-password checks, and since
> common
> > sense is, um, well, not-so, "system compromised via incredibly poor
> password
> > choice" is something I've seen more often than I'd like to.
>
> The cure is not to disallow features, but use right passwords.
>
> If I recall well poor passwords can be set by root, but there
> is a warning (at least when set with passwd).
Not when during installation however, it used to be, back in the RH
x.x days, but it go removed for reasons I am not sure.
Password strength warning? File a RFE.
Rahul