Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

Thu Feb 5 23:01:41 UTC 2015

 Regards 
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie SatensteinMontréal Québec, Canada

      From: Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com>
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 Subject: Re: Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

On 02/05/2015 12:36 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> Next to impossible? Really? I've find it easy to come up with passwords
> that work. We even report libpwquality's reason for any failures.

'my name is' (good) (10 chars)
'bacon4eva!' (strong) (10 chars)
'hamncheese.' (strong) (10 chars)
'GoPatriots!' (strong) (11 chars)
'hey, you!' (good) (8 chars)
'8crayons.' (good) (9 chars)
'latte2015' (good) (9 chars)

I tried making up some passwords in Anaconda in F21, which uses the same 
library. I had a difficult time making a password rated less than good 
when I made passwords that were 10 characters with only lowercase 
letters and no spaces or special characters. Add spaces, a punctuation 
mark, or caps and it is instantly easier. I had a much harder time 
making a new acceptable password for my Twitter account.

Is the concern that 10 chars is too long?

~m

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All passwords of 8 characters are good, but some are better than other.
In the past, I while installing, I used the simplist of passwords. On first logon, I then created a more sophisticated one, using  € and ¥ and some other characters.
For testing I propose to use ###abc123   for nine characters. Don't know if letter repeats of more than 2 characters will be permitted. It would be nice to have the acceptance rule.

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