Group: comp.os.linux.security


Subject: passwd prompts for new password only once when is pressed
From: Chris Davies
Date: 9/13/2007 10:08:46 AM
wong_powah@yahoo.ca wrote: > When I just press the "enter" key when passwd prompts for new > password, I should get re-prompted 3 times. Instead, it reprompts only > once for FC 6. > How to change passwd's behavior so that it will re-prompt 3 times? Passwd assumes that if you're changing a password as root then you really know what you're doing. For all other users it will continue to insist for a valid password. Chris