afaik, there's no requirement. You could even have an empty passwd. That would be more than foolish, of course, but you could do it. I can tell you that my Fedora passwords are much shorter, for instance. Are you perhaps getting confused by an evaluation widget that gives real time feedback on the strength of your entered password? I believe there's this kind of guidance going on in the graphical environment. My passwords do well on that widget because I avoid correctly spelled dictionary words, and I mix case, numerics, and punctuation into my passwords. Still, the number of chars can be counted on your fingers. hth Janina Jude DaShiell writes: > What are root password security requirements for Fedora23? How many > characters; what types of characters as minimums? Passwords I've entered > one of which was 14 characters in length may be too short, but the installer > doesn't complain coherently and explain exactly what is wrong with a > password so I can't tell what I'm doing wrong. > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
