Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

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2008/4/27, Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 13:31 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Not sure what you're talking about, but the reason is simple: it's easier
> > for the average user to remember _one_ cryptographically strong password
> > than two. So what we've seen is that people take either one very weak 
> > password
> > for either root or user (both being bad with us having ssh on by default -
> > which the majority of this list refused to change) or used the same password
> > for both.
> >
> > And we want to strengthen the message: the better way is to have one _GOOD_
> > password in the average case openSUSE is installed - on people's home
> > machines. For servers and company work stations this might be very different
> > and there is the checkbox to easily disable it and enter a separate root
> > password (most often already defined by team guidelines).
> >
> > If you see a good reason to force the average home user to remember two
> > passwords let me know. I don't know of any.
> >
> > Greetings, Stephan
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> +1 Absolutely.
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