On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at 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. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246771 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 -- Chris Murphy