Password question.

[David Fletcher]

On Monday 24 November 2008 15:56:40 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > First, I can change my Login password to 37 characters.  Then I set a
> > password for root.  Is that what the above says?
>
> Then I can't help you and what you want I don't think is smart.  And.....
> what I am proposing is not that much tougher than what you want.
>
>

Just a thought...

Is it possible to do the same trick that I use across the network, of putting 
my ssh public key into the authorized_keys file of an account on another 
host, so that I can log in without giving the password? Only, in Steven's 
case, putting it into root's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

The plan being that Steven logs in with his horrible password, starts a 
konsole, and becomes root using ssh root at localhost. I've never tried this 
myself, but using the administrator account with sudo to copy the public key, 
it is probably possible to enable a root login without setting a root 
password at all.

Dave