On 02/17/2017 12:26 PM, John Crispin wrote: > > > On 17/02/2017 12:16, Dan Lüdtke wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> thanks for the fast response! >> >>> On 17 Feb 2017, at 11:54, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: >>> But deciding that you know better than the admin of the system is not. >> >> Not that I am a fan of telling admins what to do, but do you see any chance >> that we can get an consistent and enforceable approach to *minimum* >> requirements, e.g. minimum password length? Maybe by using a configuration >> variable? Havon only the GUI enforce minimum password length and not the CLI >> is rather inconsistent (some may say useless or even confusing). >> >>> >>> you don't have any idea what the security environment is for the system, or >>> why the admin is selecting that password. >>> >>> It's not just a busybox thing to allow the root user to select a password >>> that is shorter than 'recommended', that's normal behavior on *nix systems >>> and has been for decades, even as the 'recommendations' have changed. >> >> I rather see this as a "LEDE" system not a standard *nix system, even though >> it is based on Linux and runs a Linux kernel. The question is, is this a >> more a "product" or just another Linux system? >> >> "has been for decades" is not a good argument. The others are. But that one >> is just not. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dan > > i agree with david lang, i regularly use "a" as a passwd on test units. > > John >
I don't use a password in test units at all and there is no issue (shows the warning on login but not much else), so I think the "I need short passords for testing" is a weak argument here. -Alberto _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
