sudo and the root account

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 6 17:27:13 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:23:16PM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:

> Wouldn't it be true to say the root account is more luckily to have a
> better (more obscure/longer/mixes case/numbers...) than a user
> account.

In my experience, there are users who choose good passwords, and those who
do not.  Users who choose poor passwords are equally likely to choose poor
root passwords. :-)

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 - mdz




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