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
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