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Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix



On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:01:38AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> It seems you disagree, but don't really give a rationale for it except
> "some other programs we have in Debian default to 6 chars". Am I right?
> 
> (BTW, this "makepasswd" doesn't seem to be isntalled by default)

And can also be easily patched (I bet).

Also, as a makepasswd user, I often have to invoke it as
"makepasswd --minchars 8" since several passwords I have to generate
require a minimum of 8 characters anyway.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what?
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