Well, I don't know. You're using some kind of graphical widget, and I don't bother with those. I simply open a console/terminal and enter the passwd command. I get no molly coddling from the passwd command. PS: Of course, you need to be root, to modify root's passwd. Jude DaShiell writes: > There is no such widget in fedora installer so far as I know. What > repeatedly happens on both fedora23workstation-x86-64 and > fedora24workstation-x86-64-beta is I enter a password for root then I can > hit enter or tab and enter the same password for confirmation and then hit > the _done button and am repeatedly told root password not set user account > will not be created. The downloaded beta version was from bittorrent and > Fedora23 was through wget since I couldn't find a torrent for that iso. > > If the fedora spins ever include the orca dependency stack, and if those > install better than workstation, I'll be able to run orca on kde and start > testing jovie and kaccessible but there doesn't appear to be any interest in > that by spin developers. > > I thought in light of the difficulties that prompted this thread Fedora had > length and character requirements for root passwords like navy passwords > used to be 14 characters long and you had to have two upper two lower two > numbers and two symbols in them. > > On Fri, 13 May 2016, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:39:16 > >From: Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: Re: Fedora23 workstation install > > > >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 > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > 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
