Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Wed Oct 12 22:01:14 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:41 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
> Kevin Fenzi writes:
> 
> > New Password Rules:
> >
> > * Nine or more characters with lower and upper case letters, digits and
> >   punctuation marks.
> > * Ten or more characters with lower and upper case letters and digits.
> > * Twelve or more characters with lower case letters and digits
> > * Twenty or more characters with all lower case letters.
> > * No maximum length.
> 
> Pop quiz, folks:
> 
> Guess how many people will have their password set to  
> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".
> 
> It meets the new criteria.

This is much easier to type and also passes:
12qwertyuiop
:)

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Tomas Mraz
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