[PATCH] su: support denying accounts with blank password

Isaac Dunham ibid.ag at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 14:57:17 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Add a compile time option to disallow switching to an account with blank
> password.

And how does one set the root password, if you blank the root password?
Wouldn't this result in a system that's permanently unadministrable
unless you recover via init=/bin/sh, chroot, or such?

Or is blanking the root password completely wrong?

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham



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