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Re: 2 SUQ (stupid unix questions)




On 3 Apr 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

> > It does work if you do it under root permissions even if you have minimum
> > password length.
> 
> No, it does not. I tried it as root yesterday.

. Probbably depends on your distro. Here's what my SuSE 7.0 box does:

DING!|[pharoe] root:~#passwd aris
New password: 
Bad password: too short
Re-enter new password: 
Password changed

:-)

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