I wouldn't mind if control-center dropped its own checks and leaves the strength checking to PAM. There is already cracklib and other PAM plugins which check password quality for all interfaces (not just control-center).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/821765 Title: The user account password requirements should be less strict Status in GNOME Control Center: Invalid Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The password field in the User Accounts panel enforces corporatey password requirements. Passwords must be a particular length, must not be "too simple", and cannot be similar to existing passwords. Consider a case where a user accidentally enters a password with caps lock turned on. There will be no way to solve this without choosing a different password altogether. Also because of this requirement, one cannot change a hint for an existing password. Ubuntu aims to be an easy to use operating system at home - one that doesn't demand too much from the user. So, this feature should probably be turned off in our case. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/821765/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
