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
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
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
>
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
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
