On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:08:26PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > Right, mystery solved. I did not realise that passwd allows root to set > the user's password to anything, even if the cracklib checks fail.
> If I instead run 'sudo -u testuser passwd' then I am unable to set a > weak password. Sorry for the noise. Oh, ok, cause I was having a devil of a time trying to figure out how we would fix that root-only behavior :-) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
