On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:39:55 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> The above is stuff thats all being worked on, yelling at anyone
is
> unlikely to change the speed at which it gets done.
What does "worked on" mean?
I have been talking with pam, libpwquality, anaconda,
gnome-initial-setup and passwd maintainers to come up with a technical
way to implement a default policy. As well as a way to override it for
local users or products that wish a different policy.
I have been spending a bunch of time exchanging emails, looking at
libpwquality code and working out something everyone can implement.
It seem to me that that is precisely the issue.
It could mean fixing the problem.
It could mean setting it in stone.
My expectation, and I think that of others,
is that for anaconda, it will be set in stone.
What does 'set in stone mean'? The current behavior?
No. The proposed policy (which I just submitted to fesco for approval)
wouldn't be the same as the current anaconda behavior.
...snip...
How is a maintainer or a standard writer suppose to distinguish
patience-based silence from approval-based silence?
When a maintainer or standard writer says: "We are working on this,
please hang on" and you wait that is patience. When you say "NO! I am
filing bugs and complaining instead" thats anoying.
Is there currently any reason to suppose that from now on
anaconda will not enforce its notion of strong passwords?
Yes, because there will be a distro wide policy that anaconda (and
other local password changing things) will follow.
In case the current work includes the setting in
stone of anaconda's demand for "strong" passwords,
what can or should those who prefer
encouragement to enforcement do about it?
Well, I would personally say you should wait until there was a proposed
policy to look at. Now there is:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1455#comment:30
Feel free to comment there or in the fesco meeting tomorrow.
If there's a great deal of problem with it we could also push it back
to a discussion on the devel list.
The frustrating thing for me here is that I have been working on this
(as my other piles of tasks permit) for a while now and then people come
along and start yelling that it's not changed yet, and tell me that
they refuse to wait until there's a proposal, they want to complain to
anaconda folks now (who are also waiting until there's a fesco policy).
I appreciate that this is a very hot button issue for some folks, and I
also appreciate that you want a solution 2 weeks ago, but I'm doing the
best I can here to move us all to a nice standard distro policy and we
aren't even at alpha yet.
kevin