Any reason to have a strong user password?
I recently decided to change my (very) strong user password to something trivial.
This was mostly to eliminate frustration with typing a long password each time I sudo or whatever.
My question is, is there any reason to have a strong user password? considering that most services which I run on my box do not use PAM for auth:
- apache2 - uses .htpasswd for access
- sshd - only private keys allowed
- transmissiond - uses its own http auth
- mpd - uses its own auth
- samba - limited to LAN
Physical access to the box is out of the question.
The reason to have a password is the reason to have a strong or even a very strong password, one of the reasons being to protect you from unauthorized access.
If you are certain that your PC is absolutely safe that it doesn't need a password, you may want to have a look at these questions:
- How to run an application using sudo without a password
- How do I prevent policykit from asking for a password
- How to change/disable password complexity test when changing password?