Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 29 01:07:39 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 19:29 -0500, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 01/28/2015 06:54 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> Is it just the root password (not really ok) or the user passwords 
> as well (really not ok)?

If I read the patches correctly, it's both, plus the passphrase for 
encrypted disks if you do that.
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