This problem seems to have been identified as a bug. That answers my
original question. But...
On Sunday, November 3, 2019 9:59:10 AM EST D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Tim via users
>
> | Samuel Sieb:
> | >> 3 retries is the usual thing.
>
> | Ignoring your particular case, it may stop
| From: Tim via users
| If any user should need the enforcement of good passwords, it's the
| root user. If your PC was on a LAN where crackers can have a go at
| you, this could be very important. It does not take long for someone
| to mess up a system if they can get in. It's better to be sa
| From: Tim via users
| Samuel Sieb:
| >> 3 retries is the usual thing.
| Ignoring your particular case, it may stop a bad keyboard, or a typist
| who needs to type slower to accurately enter their password.
It also makes brute-forcing a little harder. Not a lot.
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On 11/2/19 5:19 PM, jdow wrote:
+1 - with the asininities being reported for Centos 8 and now Fedora
it's probably time to look for me on some other distribution.
If this is the way you're going to react, then it probably is.
If I want an all text no caps no punctuation no numbers password 102
+1 - with the asininities being reported for Centos 8 and now Fedora it's
probably time to look for me on some other distribution.
If I want an all text no caps no punctuation no numbers password 102 characters
long let me do it. *I* am the one who suffers not you dweebs. Doing it my way I
hav
Hi,
Garry Williams wrote:
> When did this start?
>
> garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel
> Changing password for user ppatel.
> New password:
> BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
> New password:
> BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
>
On Saturday, November 2, 2019 5:56:53 AM EDT Tim via users wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 12:38 -0400, Garry Williams wrote:
> > The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine?
> > Since when?
> >
> > I wanted to assign a temporary password for a new user and then do
> >
> >
On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 12:38 -0400, Garry Williams wrote:
> The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine?
> Since when?
>
> I wanted to assign a temporary password for a new user and then do
>
> sudo passwd -e ppatel
>
> to force it to be changed. For the new user, enfo
Samuel Sieb:
>> 3 retries is the usual thing.
Garry T. Williams:
> But for choosing a new password? Please. What on earth does that
> accomplish?
My guess is a simple failure count, with it not caring what kind of
failure there was. If you've failed to type it in three times in a
row, probably
On Friday, November 1, 2019 12:57:51 PM EDT Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 11/1/19 9:38 AM, Garry Williams wrote:
> > When did this start?
> >
> > garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel
> > Changing password for user ppatel.
>
> Have you changed your sudo settings? Why didn't it ask for your
> user pa
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 09:57:51 -0700
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You don't say what Fedora version you are running. This doesn't happen
> for me on F30. I get the warnings about short or otherwise bad
> passwords, but it lets it happen anyway.
Same here, no restrictions on fedora 30 or 31 (just install
On 11/1/19 9:38 AM, Garry Williams wrote:
When did this start?
garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel
Changing password for user ppatel.
Have you changed your sudo settings? Why didn't it ask for your user
password?
The root user cannot set whatever password he wants on his machine?
Sinc
When did this start?
garry@ifr$ sudo passwd ppatel
Changing password for user ppatel.
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password
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