Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:07:52AM -0500, Paul Gupta was heard to say: > I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the > installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password > is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?" > > I'm assuming (which I h

Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

Paul Gupta wrote: > By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too > weak etc. > ... > What is it exactly? AND How would one configure it to be stricter or > more lenient with password selection? I use libpam-cracklib to protect from dictionary attacks. Also installed some d

Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

Paul Gupta wrote: By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too weak etc. I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?" I'm

Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

Paul Gupta wrote: By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too weak etc. I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?" I'm