Re: Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently
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- Subject: Re: Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently
- From: Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 12:50:10 +0000
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Philip Hands wrote:
> IMO Having the 'password/passphrase' throughout makes it awkward to
> read, and actually we've got one place where it still just says
> password, and fixing that would make it slightly worse IMO.
>
> How about dropping the passphrase stuff?
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/philh/user-setup/-/commit/7c8dd1bd9d5c8596e7b8f82a19a075e0a5572ed7
> &
> https://openqa.debian.net/tests/240582#step/passwords/1
>
> which I think is more readable (and is probably fine now that we've
> dropped the stuff about password selection which could be read as
> suggesting that a password is expected to be a single word).
It all looks fine to me; as the screenshot shows, we use "password" as
a general cover-term all over the user interface anyway.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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