On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:37 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:35:11PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >> passwd keeps complaining "The password fails the dictionary check - >> it is too simplistic" for fake words NOT in the dictionary but >> otherwise too simple for passwd's approval system. > > I think you can just ignore passwd's warning in this case, it doesn't > stop you from going ahead and using the simple password (unless > something changed in F17).
Aha. So if I use passwd with liveuser, it says after three tries: passwd: Have exhausted maximum number of retries for service And does not change the passwd. But if I su to root, it still complains once, but does change the password after the Retype entry. NEVERTHELESS. It's idiotic babysitting. And stupid that I need root to do this mundane task. I wonder how many developer man hours were required for this functionality. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
