On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:21:44 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 07:00:03PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:18:01 +0000 > > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Tue 28 Jan 2020 at 11:02:12 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > The biggest security flaw with any OS is the user. > > > > > > By God. I wish I said that! > > > > > > The same is true is true of motor cars, washing machines, microwave > > > cookers, TV sets, bicycles, the postal system etc, etc. These damned > > > humans - nothing but trouble. > > > > Except the smart ones. They read the manual. :) > > You don't seem to -- otherwise you'd have found how to get Debian to > check password strength ;-P
I do know how, but it's not really necessary on a single-user system like this one or the OP's. Just follow a few simple rules which are usually in the install instructions, and you're reasonably secure. If you're referring to the statement I made, which you didn't quote here, about coming across a couple of distros that did check for password strength, I was refering to this happening during an initial install which I had never come across before. When testing a distro in a VM, I use very simple passwords for both root and user just for convenience since the distro will be deleted after testing. So, if the installer checked, I would have seen this a lot. I haven't. B
