Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

[Samuel Sieb]

On 01/28/2015 06:54 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It was done as a follow-up / alternative to this Change proposal:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSHD_PermitRootLogin_no
>
> a lot of the reaction to that was along the lines of 'well, why not
> just make sure the root password is secure', and that got picked up by
> anaconda folks. You can follow the discussion in the devel@ and
> anaconda-devel-list archives.
>
I just don't understand the reasoning here.  Sure, make it very clear 
that the chosen password is weak.  Make me jump through several hoops 
before accepting the weak password.  But it's my computer!  Why can't I 
make the (informed) choice to use a weak password?