On 10/06/12 23:39, Andre Robatino wrote:
> William Brown firstyear.id.au> writes:
>
>> If you run passwd as your own user, compared to passwd as root changing
>> your user password, you will see that running passwd as your own user
>> will result in the same result as running the password change
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 15:43 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> i do not understand any discussion about this
> select a seure password or we will see sooner or later
> drive-by-attacks trying sudo with default passwords
>
> everybody who thinks "how should this happen" should
> reconsider how all the
William Brown firstyear.id.au> writes:
> If you run passwd as your own user, compared to passwd as root changing
> your user password, you will see that running passwd as your own user
> will result in the same result as running the password change from
> System Settings (You recieve a passwd is
Am 10.06.2012 15:35, schrieb William Brown:
>
>> I'm still seeing an inconsistency between command-line and graphical. Running
>> passwd as root, I can make my ordinary user password arbitrarily short
>> (except
>> for an empty password which fails with the error "passwd: Authentication
>> tok
> I'm still seeing an inconsistency between command-line and graphical. Running
> passwd as root, I can make my ordinary user password arbitrarily short (except
> for an empty password which fails with the error "passwd: Authentication token
> manipulation error" after entering it twice). With Sys
William Brown firstyear.id.au> writes:
> You only need to root to ignore the bad passwd warning. If your run
> passwd as your own user, a "BAD" password, will deny the change, and ask
> you to create a better password. When you run as root, it is implied
> that you *really* want to set a "BAD" pa
On 10/06/12 07:22, Andre Robatino wrote:
> suvayu ali gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Andre Robatino
>> fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> I also noticed that doing it graphically required me to
>>> enter the root password first, which isn't (and shouldn't be) necessary when
>
suvayu ali gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Andre Robatino
> fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > I also noticed that doing it graphically required me to
> > enter the root password first, which isn't (and shouldn't be) necessary when
> > doing it via the passwd command.
>
> The ro
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Andre Robatino
wrote:
> I also noticed that doing it graphically required me to
> enter the root password first, which isn't (and shouldn't be) necessary when
> doing it via the passwd command.
The root password is required to add a user. The "sudo su -" in John's
john maclean gmail.com> writes:
> You can always ignore the warning.
You can only ignore the warning if you change the password using the passwd
command, not when trying to do it graphically in System Settings->User Accounts
as the OP described. I also noticed that doing it graphically required
On 06/09/2012 06:21 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
Hi There,
Just a rant, nothing more. I know the solution.
I like Linux (Fedora in particular) because my computer doesn't tell
me what I can and can not do - I tell the computer what to do.
Today, I decide to change my own user password int
Hi There,
Just a rant, nothing more. I know the solution.
I like Linux (Fedora in particular) because my computer doesn't tell me
what I can and can not do - I tell the computer what to do.
Today, I decide to change my own user password into something that's
easier to type (through the set
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