Re: [PATCH]Validation of root password with cracklib

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 20:37 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Plus, I'd like to see an easy option (something I could put in the boot
> conf) to make continuing with a weak password not an option.

Which then leads to more special cases, more one-off code that doesn't
get tested and other such problems.  I'm pretty against making the
behavior here dependent on boot-time args. 

We need less of that, not more.

Jeremy