Quoting Steven Demetrius (steven.demetrius@fiwwi.com): > Many new users to Debian complain how difficult and geeky it is to use. This is anything but a legend now. Sorry, but I (and probably many other D-I developers) feel sick when reading this as a full default Debian install is as painless as any other Linux system install. I suspect many Linux so-called gurus (or pseudo ones) to be responsible for this and continue to spread out such legend. Anyway, I think you'r emissing the point of the bug report. Being able to use weak passwords is not something we plan to remove the possibility for. The point is only adding a check and warn users when they use weak passwords...giving them the opportunity to either go on, knowing what they're doing) or change their mind and use a stronger password. Even in the closed-source software world, this is something that is done more and more (just look at the password policy for many corporate environments based on Microsoft products), so I don't think this is something that will scare users. Again, this is not about strictly enforcing strong passwords. Anyawy, all this is science-fiction right now as nobody cared enough to implement a good password quality test in user-setup.
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