SSHd

[Rahul]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 8/21/06, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:11:32PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:56:48PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
>> > Sadly, since root is immune to the poor-password checks, and since 
>> common
>> > sense is, um, well, not-so, "system compromised via incredibly poor 
>> password
>> > choice" is something I've seen more often than I'd like to.
>>
>> The cure is not to disallow features, but use right passwords.
>>
>> If I recall well poor passwords can be set by root, but there
>> is a warning (at least when set with passwd).
> 
> Not when during installation however, it used to be, back in the RH
> x.x days, but it go removed for reasons I am not sure.
>
Password strength warning? File a RFE.

Rahul