Re: Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> 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


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Chris Murphy
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