On 25/07/15 18:24, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:16:18AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
This might show up twice, I think I sent it from a bad address previously. If so, please accept my apologies.
In Fedora 22, one developer (and only one) decided that if the password chosen during installation wasn't of sufficient strength, the install wouldn't continue. A bug was filed, and there was also a great deal of aggravation about it on the Fedora testing list. So, it was dropped.
However, like a US (and probably other countries) politician who has one bad law suddenly exposed, it seems they are doing it for F23, judging from a test installation. I've filed a bug if anyone wants to chime in and ask them not to do it.
This is a good write up on the story: https://lwn.net/Articles/639405/
And the proposal for Fedora 23: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Standardized_passphrase_policy
And the discussion for Workstation's behavior: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-July/012588.html
Kevin Fenzi responded to my post on Fedora testing saying that at least it is FESCO decisions this time, not just a one man one, and asked for patience. (My knee-jerk response is why are they even discussing it after last time, but I refrained.) Thank you for the links Chris.
I can certainly see why it can annoy certain people.
I think a better solution to suite both worlds would be to simply have a boot flag on the installation media such as maybe "passwordcheck=true/false" to enable/disable the strength and check features of password entry and simply show a text box (and confirm) if it is disabled without any password checking.
This way those who need the check disabled for quick deployments can do so and put a stronger password in later at their own time and choosing.
Meanwhile those who wish to have the password checked can also do so.
Thus, both people happy :-).
Personally, I am neither against the idea, nor for it. It doesn't affect me as I usually use strong passwords regardless.
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