|--==> Paul Millar writes: PM> [1 <text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] PM> Hi all,
PM> I was going to submit a bug against passwd for this so it doesn't get lost in PM> the wash. Did you? PM> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:51, Free Ekanayaka wrote: >>what about automatic root pw setting? PM> (my reading is...) PM> Currently this doesn't work because passwd deliberately unsets the PM> passwd/root-passwd and ...-again keys before trying to obtain them. This is PM> (IMO) correct behaviour -- no system should expect to hold root pw in PM> plain-text, so any existing values should be discarded. PM> An alternative solution is to have a key passwd/root-hash (or some such) that PM> the passwd install scripts would use, if its set, so it wouldn't need to ask PM> the user for the password. Probably only a few lines of extra code are PM> needed to support this. Seems reasonable to me. >>Furthermore I'd like to be able to set it to the same password chosen >>by the user for his personal account. This imply that the user account >>must be set up *before* root password. Is this possible? PM> AFAIK, there is no restriction on what you choose for your passwords, although PM> having the same password for user and root accounts is a Bad Idea. I'm talking about personal workstation.. I admit that I always did it for my personal machines. Although it doesn't sound too good I don't see exactly where it could hurt. Cheers, Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
