Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (87 mails)

[Ian Grant <Ian.Grant@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:24:39 -0500
Lee Mayes <autoinst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ian Grant wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > Having recently resurrected my info file using the kernel parameter
> > info=file:///info I get prompted (by linuxrc?) to enter a VNC
> > password. [...]
>   I guess it's a new rule with 10.2. I can reproduce this, but only if
>   
> the VNC password I chose is less than 8 characters.  I don't recall
> this  password checking before.

Thanks, that's interesting. The password I am using is 10 characters and
it passes cracklib-check. ... I should have said that this password is
OK if it's only in the options on the kernel command line. So if you are
right then the checking is only being done for passwords specified in
the info file, not ones on the kernel command line, which is a bit weird
...
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