On 4 February 2015 at 14:36, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: >> Thinking about you systems from a penetration testing perspective can >> be helpful. For example, "Always Learning" has just told us that he >> uses single character root passwords on his testing machines, that he >> is testing 7 days a week and does not turn off his test machines. > > Yes single character. > Writing and testing usually 7 days weekly. > Turn off everything when not in use including test machines. > > No connection to the Internet. Sorry. Must have misunderstood your earlier comments. Sounds like a fairly specialized work-flow. You might want to consider using an updates.img that removes the password strength requirements (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates). The anaconda installer is fairly straight forward Python code. I haven't got a copy on me at the moment, but at a guess, all you need to do is track down the relevant lines and comment them out. Hope this helps. Kal