Github user bhaisaab commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/841#issuecomment-140684521
I think the PasswordGenerator.generateRandomPassword (from utils) is not
secure at all for small lengths (such as the default 6), since it's not really
random ("random 3-character string with a lowercase character, uppercase
character, and a digit" + random n-character string with only lowercase
characters") and one could create a rainbow table to attempt to get into
systemvms. In case of uservms, it is advised to change the password; but in
case of systemvms it will be an issue. In case of systemvms, may be we can
still directly use the PasswordGenerator util but increase the length to 24 or
32 or 24+rand integer?
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