Re: [PATCH]Validation of root password with cracklib

[James Laska <jlaska redhat com>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I haven't fully inspected the patches, so this may already be the 
case.

Would it be possible to display a warning ... instead of blocking the 
install?  This behavior or map well to the post-install passwd behavior 
when run by root.  It warns ... but if you want to proceed ... you are 
welcome to.

Thanks,
James

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