On 21/07/2021 02:24, John Covici wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:52:43 -0400,
antlists wrote:
On 20/07/2021 23:37, John Covici wrote:
Hi. After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on
my local console. Soome software put lots of restrictions on how I
could choose the password and I would like to losen or abolish those
restrictions. This is only for local consoles, so its a bit
rediculous anyway.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
/etc/security/passwdqc.conf ???
hth
Thanks, never messed with this before, I will see what I can see.
Nor had I until I built my new system. It seems the defaults have been
tightened up ...
All very well, but the primary purpose of security on my machine is to
stop users trampling over other user's default setups :-)
Cheers,
Wol
