On 01/30/2015 12:21 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 12:59 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
What's the actual, real world,
non-imaginary impetus behind the change?
It's exactly what all the list posts I pointed you to say it is. I
don't know how to stop the conspiracy virus which causes people to
leap to the conclusion that there's some shadowy secret motive behind
every change they don't like, but there *isn't*. PJP posted about his
change proposal to anaconda-devel . bcl said 'that doesn't sound like a
good idea, but we take your point about possible brute force attacks
against services enabled ootb, and an easy way to mitigate that is to
require strong passwords'. anaconda already *has* a password strength
checker, so it probably took him all of five minutes to make it
mandatory instead of optional. Then he dropped a mail here as a
^^^^^^^^^
courtesy heads-up. that's the entirety of what happened.
That's what's setting people off--making it mandatory unilaterally.
I have no issue with the system nattering at me that the password is
(in the installer's opinion) inadequate, but do NOT stop me from using
it. I probably have a damned good reason to use it. After all, I put in
my "weak" password twice (and note the second time was AFTER the system
bitched about its perceived weakness). I obviously want it set to what
I entered.
If I wanted to be led by the nose, restricted in what I can do and
nannied constantly, I'd use Windows or a freaking Mac. Sheesh!
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