Maybe I'll take a look at the installer source and track it down... Thanks for the input though Matt!
Dahlgren ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:25 pm Subject: Re: Root password restrictions To: [email protected] > > :Greetings all, > : > : I've noticed that the root account password (according to the > :installer) cannot contain punctuation; why is this? A major part > of creating > :good passwords is the use of punctuation and special characters. > Are there > :plans to reverse this or was this an intentional design decision? > : > :Regards, > : > :Ronald E Dahlgren > > I think that's a quirk of the installer. The normal passwd > command doesn't have such restrictions. > > But you don't have to set a root password in the installer at all. > In fact, you generally do not have to set a root password, ever. > Root logins are disallowed by default so the only way to get to > root is to su from another account. These days people almost > never assign passwords to accounts and instead use SSH for all > remote access, including access to the root account by changing the > PermitRootLogin declaration in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to 'without- > password' (which basically means: only via authenticated public > keys). > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
