On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:39:25PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:04:52AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > su, 2007-09-02 kello 12:47 -0700, Steve Langasek kirjoitti: > > > Does anyone else have a reasoned argument why Debian should have a weaker > > > password length check than upstream (4 chars instead of 6)? If not, this > > > will be changed in the next upload of pam. > > > What's the justification of not using a minimum password length of 8? > > Given modern processor power availability, I can't think of one;
How about modern brain availability? You'll just get a lot of annoyed people changing it back; for example, makepasswd still uses a minimum length of six. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
