[RULE] Real Endusers installing w/ Slinky

Michael Fratoni mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Wed Jul 2 03:02:34 EEST 2003


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On Tuesday 01 July 2003 07:19 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote:

> I'll look at it. I have to tell you that I *hate* the idea of creating
> a user with an empty password. It just goes against everything I've
> always taught/been taught. I agree this might add a small amount to the
> learning curve. In my mind, it's better to learn the proper way, rather
> than learn sloppy security practices.

Thinking on this a bit more, a user "linux" with a password of "linux" 
isn't any better than a null password. But I still don't like it. ;)
Actually, I'm a bit surprised that the passwd/pam utilities would allow 
'linux' as a password.

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