On Thursday 22 June 2006 6:16 am, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
For the first time in a while, I've needed to use the cups web interface, and when setting the password I'm told my password isn't long/difficult enough. What governs the password difficulty for lppasswd? It's not the same as the usual user password, because I'm trying to set it the same as my root password and it's not accepting it.
theluggage:~ # lppasswd root Enter password: Enter password again: lppasswd: Sorry, password rejected. Your password must be at least 6 characters long, cannot contain your username, and must contain at least one letter and number.
Thanks Hans
lppasswd is governing that, isn't it? Otherwise you'd be using passwd... From a system security view CUPS is trying to get you to be more secure. The idea being that if CUPS is compromised then they don't have root on the system too. Do what its asking you to do and all is fine. Start using a different password for CUPS' 'root'. Stan -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com