Hi
I have been looking into passwords on my system (6.3)
I have been using the same password for root and myself as a user (not
good practise I know) This was ok for me....but now that I have also
set up my children as users I wanted to change my root password to be
sure that they could not watch me and gain root access.
I discovered something which surprised me. I wanted to keep the new
pass word similar ...but different.
eg. My old pass phrase which I used for root and user brian was
abcdefgh . I changed my root pass word to abcdefghxy.
However I was still able to log in as root using abcdefgh, AND
abcdefghxy
How can this happen? I have now changed it to abcdejkl and now have
proper access restored.
(These examples are for illustration purposes only, and bear no
resemblance to the actual passwords)
Regards
Brian
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E-Mail: Brian Galbraith