Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 01/30/2015 01:00 AM, David Lehman wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> What if security is not a concern for you?
>>
>> 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.
> 

Using a pass-phrase is pretty good in circumstances where the password
strength should be good, yet the password be easy to remember.


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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)