Password question.

[Steven Vollom]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>   
>> First, I can change my Login password to 37 characters.  Then I set a
>> password for root.  Is that what the above says?
>>     
>
> Then I can't help you and what you want I don't think is smart.  And.....   
> what I am proposing is not that much tougher than what you want.
>
>
> Suppose:
>
> 1) You log in to your system with your gawd-awful 37 characters.
>
> 2) you open a console window in KDE.
>
> 3) You type 3 simple things:
>
> xhost +    <this opens the X system for commands you issue at root.>
> su            <jump down to root in the console window)
> <enter roots password>
>
> Now you have a root window that you NEVER NEED TO CLOSE FOR THIS SESSION.
>
> And if you have a two character root password (Not recommended at all)  then 
> there is not much to type.
>
> I usually have three such console sessions going at all times,  one of them 
> being an ssh session on my email server and firewall.
>
> Now, if you'd trade in some of those 37 characters (like 25 of them)  I'll bet 
> you could come out with less key strokes.
>
>
>   
Dear Bruce,

I changed my login password to the nightmare.  Then I typed in a 
terminal xhost +, next I typed in su, then I typed in em, because that 
was my password for the terminal, It did not accept it.  I reentered 
xhost + and got the following:

steven at Studio25:~$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
steven at Studio25:~$

I did not get a chance to type in the new Login password, which I 
suppose it wanted.

Did I just make a terminal mistake?  in the worst sense.

Steven