Debian bug report logs - #1022, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#1022: No message for 'easy' pasword
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Package: base
Version: 0.93R5

[Reported by a friend]

When a user supplies an 'easy' password (e.g. lower case only),
the install rejects this _without giving any indication of the cause
of rejection_; this can cause users to think that the install has
gone in an infinite loop.

Suggestion: if a password is reject, print a message like
"That password is not safe enough; please use a password with
 a combination of upper and lower case characters, and preferably
 including non-alphanumeric characters".

Regards,
Ray
--
J.H.M. Dassen                 | RUMOUR  Believe all you hear. Your world may
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Dassen@stpc.wi.LeidenUniv.Nl  | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid.
                              |     - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL (J.H.M.Dassen)
Subject: Bug#1022: Acknowledgement (was: No message for 'easy' pasword)
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Subject: Bug#1022: No message for 'easy' pasword
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:18:39 -0700
To: jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL (J.H.M.Dassen), debian-bugs@pixar.com
From: grantbow@netcom.com (Grant R. Bowman)

At 4:08 AM 6/20/95, J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
>Package: base
>Version: 0.93R5
>
>[Reported by a friend]
>
>When a user supplies an 'easy' password (e.g. lower case only),
>the install rejects this _without giving any indication of the cause
>of rejection_; this can cause users to think that the install has
>gone in an infinite loop.

Actually, take a look at bug report #997.  I gave a step-by-step
description of what happened to me when I installed the base system, and it
started looping.  I have not (0/3) gotten a base installed without looping
yet.  The easy password is actually accepted, I believe.  It was accepted
and used during my initial installations.  I have not yet tried it with a
complex password.

Also, when I retest, it would help if I knew where can I find the code that
defines an "easy password?"

>Suggestion: if a password is reject, print a message like
>"That password is not safe enough; please use a password with
> a combination of upper and lower case characters, and preferably
> including non-alphanumeric characters".

Ray,

I am not sure that the password was really rejected.  My simple password
was accepted and I used it to log in to fix my looping problem.  I can do
another format and reinstall of my little test base system if it's genuine,
but I would first like to know what makes him think the password was
rejected?

Who is your friend?  I don't want to make you a messenger when asking about
these specfics.  I doubt you would like it and I think I might be able to
narrow it down quicker if I e-mail him (or him me) or whatever.

Without testing it, I have a hunch that the looping is not due to the
password, and that it was just a coincidence.  I will let you know when I
try another base install if this is actually the case.

Regards,

--
-- Grant R. Bowman                                AdvoTech
-- <grantbow@netcom.com>         Computer and Software Asset Manaagement

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reassign 1022 (base)

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