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