changing the login password's requirement

Ankush Grover ankush174 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 07:16:18 UTC 2005


On 4/19/05, Steffen Kluge <kluge at fujitsu.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:55 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
> >  I want that whoever tries to use either su - for any user and anybody
> > tring to use root password has to enter that password twice.
> 
> What do you expect this to gain you? I mean, nobody enters a correct
> password accidentally, at least not if it is of non-trivial length and
> contains a good mix of characters. And if it is trivial, one can
> probably recall what one just typed.

Hey,

Question is not that whether somebody mistakenly enters the correct
password or not,the question is whether the thing I am thinking is
possible or not.I may not use it but I am interested in knowing
whether this is possible or not.

Thanks for your reply.

Thanks & Regards

Ankush




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