SSHd

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Aug 21 07:06:01 UTC 2006


On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:11:32PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:56:48PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Sadly, since root is immune to the poor-password checks, and since common
> sense is, um, well, not-so, "system compromised via incredibly poor password
> choice" is something I've seen more often than I'd like to.

The cure is not to disallow features, but use right passwords.

If I recall well poor passwords can be set by root, but there
is a warning (at least when set with passwd).

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Pat




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