Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

David Lehman dlehman at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 19:30:11 UTC 2015


On 01/29/2015 06:29 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 08:53:42 AM Brian C. Lane wrote:
>> This Friday's build of Anaconda will no longer allow you to use weak
>> passwords and click done twice. In order to promote more secureish
>> default systems I have increased the password length required to 8
>> characters and removed allowing weak (as defined by libpwquality)
>> passwords.
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> What if security is not a concern for you?
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> What are your suggestions for folks who create a lot of VMs, use them specific
> cases, where password protection is merely an annoyance, and then throw them
> away?

Pick a single "strong" password that you can remember and use it for all 
of them. Pretty easy, really.

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