new user passwords are now 'judged'

[grahammechanical]

It's my machine and I'll do what I like!

True. But is it your operating system? You did accept the End User Licence when you installed, did you not? Oh, it has not yet come to that.


With all the fuss about privacy and the shopping lens, I would not be surprised to one day see some kind of notice to the effect that by using Ubuntu I have accepted certain conditions of use.

By searching in the dash you consent to:

the collection and use of your search terms and IP address in this way; and the storage of your search terms and IP address by Canonical and such selected third parties (if applicable).

A small part of such a licence is already in place.

Regards.

[The Cog]

no one else uses my computers, why do i need to 'fort knox' them?

To keep it that way.

[bouncingwilf]

True. But is it your operating system? You did accept the End User Licence when you installed, did you not? Oh, it has not yet come to that.


With all the fuss about privacy and the shopping lens, I would not be surprised to one day see some kind of notice to the effect that by using Ubuntu I have accepted certain conditions of use.



A small part of such a licence is already in place.

Regards.

Erm......I'm using Linux Mint and not searching with the dash

Bouncingwilf

[exploder]

I think that with the various lenses being able to connect to the outside world a strong password is a good idea. Ubuntu is gaining in popularity and that will put a big target on it for hackers and malware. I am from an IT background and always use a strong password so none of this really bothers me. Better safe than sorry.

[Yeeha]

Theoretically... If program creates lot of rules for passwords for example that you cant use keys next to each other doesnt that make password cracking easyer as lot of the possibilites simply arent possible. Ofcourse it doesnt matter if password is long enough but...

[zika]

Theoretically... If program creates lot of rules for passwords for example that you cant use keys next to each other doesnt that make password cracking easyer as lot of the possibilites simply arent possible. Ofcourse it doesnt matter if password is long enough but...

Symbolic dynamics in a nutshell...
On the spot!

[mc4man]

Actually my mistake for not noticing that in prev. it did also use the 'not good enough'.
The current method was changed quite some time ago (May) for good reasons, ubuntu hasn't upped g-c-c till recently.

So really the only change was to move from 6 to 9 as min, for my use of add. users have set back to 6 in pwquality.conf

[Yougo]

Theoretically... If program creates lot of rules for passwords for example that you cant use keys next to each other doesnt that make password cracking easyer as lot of the possibilites simply arent possible. Ofcourse it doesnt matter if password is long enough but...

there's an XKCD for everything

[jbicha]

There's a GNOME bug asking for an override option.

[mc4man]

There's a GNOME bug asking for an override option.

At least here none of the warnings are 'enforced', not sure then what MC means by 'get past this dialog...'?

(the whole warning's thing seems a bit suspect as one can go from 'weak', 'fair', 'good' or even 'strong' to 'not good enough' by adding additional characters of certain types/pattern to a weak/fair/good/strong password

Ex.

1@3467sdgbz123 = strong
1@3467sdgbz1234 = not good enough
(g-c-c seems to use some edits to mentioned conf but not others.