Re: Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

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On 01/29/2015 11:04 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> On 01/30/2015 01:00 AM, David Lehman wrote:
>> On 01/29/2015 06:29 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 08:53:42 AM Brian C. Lane
>>> wrote:
>>>> This Friday's build of Anaconda will no longer allow you to
>>>> use weak passwords and click done twice. In order to promote
>>>> more secureish default systems I have increased the password
>>>> length required to 8 characters and removed allowing weak (as
>>>> defined by libpwquality) passwords.
>>> 
>>> What if security is not a concern for you?
>>> 
>>> What are your suggestions for folks who create a lot of VMs,
>>> use them specific cases, where password protection is merely an
>>> annoyance, and then throw them away?
>> 
>> Pick a single "strong" password that you can remember and use it
>> for all of them. Pretty easy, really.
>> 
> 
> Using a pass-phrase is pretty good in circumstances where the
> password strength should be good, yet the password be easy to
> remember.
> 
> 
Have we considered what this will do when used with fedup if anything?
 Or will the F21 "weak" password be grandfathered in?

Bob Lightfoot

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Sincerely,
Bob Lightfoot
"As iron sharpens iron, so one man
sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17 {NIV/84}
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