Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> What secret motive *could* there be?? The current security policy is >> weak, and this change fixes that. End of story. > > It's hard to not endorse everything you are saying. As far as motive is > concerned, it is not that secret. Security. RedHat doesn't like poorly > administered machined with RHEL linux get hacked, then many voices saying > saying in the internet: RHEL Linux is not secure, RHEL Linux machines are > getting hacked. Even though the reason is not what it sounds like. While I admire RedHat, and use CentOS on my home servers, I would expect RH to give priority to those paying for their services, who I imagine are almost all sysadmins of systems with many users. My interests as a tiny user may not coincide with theirs. This does not mean that I think there are evil spirits at RH trying to disrupt my life. But it does mean that the inconvenience of strong passwords may outweigh any additional security in my case. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin