Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qua, 2015-01-28 at 16:05 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I *know* this is going to be a bit of a pain to get used to. But the
> > increased security is worth it. Super simple passwords will no longer be
> > allowed, but it is still easy to come up with one that passes the
> > checks. pwgen has lots of suggestions.
> 
> It's not worth it. It's a PITA. It's security theater. Windows, OS X,
> Android, iOS - none of these require strong passwords, and the last
> two don't even require passwords at all. The new password requirement
> merely exposes the fact we're deficient in other areas of system
> security, and we're masking that with this insulting baby sitting
> nonsense.
> 
> Instead of coercion, it's more polite to call the user names (stupid,
> idiot, moron, imbecile, etc) if they choose weak passwords. Name
> calling is kinder, more convenient, and honest and capitulation is
> optional. This password policy is complete utter bullcrap. This
> doesn't happen on any other OS I use and it pisses me off that Fedora
> is deciding to do this exactly wrong. It's really that offensive.

+1 , I'm against enforce 'good' passwords , it is pretty clear, double
click if you want have an insecure password and system . 

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> Chris Murphy

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Sérgio M. B.