Re: Sudo

[Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:21:44 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 07:00:03PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:18:01 +0000
> > Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Tue 28 Jan 2020 at 11:02:12 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > >   
> > > > The biggest security flaw with any OS is the user.    
> > > 
> > > By God. I wish I said that!
> > > 
> > > The same is true is true of motor cars, washing machines, microwave
> > > cookers, TV sets, bicycles, the postal system etc, etc. These damned
> > > humans - nothing but trouble.  
> > 
> > Except the smart ones. They read the manual. :)  
> 
> You don't seem to -- otherwise you'd have found how to get Debian to
> check password strength ;-P

I do know how, but it's not really necessary on a single-user system
like this one or the OP's. Just follow a few simple rules which are
usually in the install instructions, and you're reasonably secure. 

If you're referring to the statement I made, which you didn't quote
here, about coming across a couple of distros that did check for
password strength, I was refering to this happening during an initial
install which I had never come across before.  When testing a distro in
a VM, I use very simple passwords for both root and user just for
convenience since the distro will be deleted after testing. So, if the
installer checked, I would have seen this a lot. I haven't.

B