On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 21:37 +0200, Stef Walter wrote: > On 06.05.2013 18:38, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 11:43 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> On 05/06/2013 10:48 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>> On 05/04/2013 12:24 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >>> On the other hand, if it's the right thing to do, > >>> then it needs to be done for GUI password change > >>> dialogs and the passwd command should be updated as > >>> well, for consistency, no? > >>> > >>> > >>> On a related note, Anaconda, GNOME, KDE etc seems to be > >>> relying on different rules about what an acceptable password > >>> is. We really need to settle on one library and provide a > >>> consistent way to tweak it. > >>> "Everything" (certainly Anaconda and GNOME, not sure about KDE) is > >>> supposed to use libpwquality. Is that not so? > >>> > >> > >> They are definitely not enforcing the same rules. > > > > One obvious area of inconsistency is that some of the tools _warn_ on > > weak passwords, and some _block_ on weak passwords. We should > > standardize on one or the other of those. > > Not really. It makes complete sense to allow overriding the rules in > certain contexts. For example when root is setting another user's password. But they have different behaviours for the same operation. For e.g., initial-setup and g-i-s have different behaviours for setting the password for the first user account. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
