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 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 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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6