[RULE] Real Endusers installing w/ Slinky

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Wed Jul 2 09:05:50 EEST 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:02, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> 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.

The root user (who is also the installer) can and does bypass all
password checking criteria.


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