> On December 8, 2014 12:05:30 AM CET, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@cvs.openbsd.org> > wrote: > >CVSROOT: /cvs > >Module name: src > >Changes by: schwa...@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/12/07 16:05:30 > > > >Modified files: > > share/man/man8 : afterboot.8 > > > >Log message: > >Since rev. 1.1, we discouraged space characters in passwords > >but even after repeated enquiries on misc@, nobody can explain why, > >so tedu the two confusing words; ok tedu@. > > Why do we recommend changing the root password there at all? I suspect some > horribly outdated historical reason, but I don't see the point of that part > at all.
Why recommend anything at all? The idea behind this page is to have (1) a page we can point at which (2) contains a few recommendations, so that (3) the users of the system can start thinking about management, and maybe we can pray they think there are best practices... The main problem with this page is ensuring that developers don't add fluff to it as time goes by.
