Sander Hoentjen wrote:
http://faq.tweakers.net/nos/DesktopLinux/Reviews/beelzebubu/RedHat/redhat-installation-install-13.png
Finallly, something better (note the label which says password accepted): http://faq.tweakers.net/nos/DesktopLinux/Reviews/beelzebubu/RedHat_7.3/redha... http://faq.tweakers.net/nos/DesktopLinux/Reviews/beelzebubu/RedHat_7.3/redha... http://www.arnut.com/linux/rh9/rh9_18.gif
another one, from: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/security-guide/s1-ws...
Forcing Strong Passwords To protect the network from intrusion it is a good idea for system administrators to verify that the passwords used within an organization are strong ones. When a user is asked to create or change his password, he can use the command line application passwd, which is PAM aware and will therefore check to see if the password is easy to crack or too short in length via the pam_cracklib.so Pluggable Authentication manager (PAM) module. Since PAM is customizable, it is possible to add further password integrity checkers, such as pam_passwdqc (available from http://www.openwall.com/passwdqc/) or to write your own module. For a list of available PAM modules, see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html. For more information about PAM, see the chapter titled Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) in the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide
Everybody agrees that strong passwords are a good idea so this quote doesnt add anything substantial to this discussion to my understanding. You might even file that as a RFE against Anaconda to show a password strength meter but I dont think anything beyond a basic length check was done before.