Bug 476312 - "Weak Password" dialog displays actual password
Summary: "Weak Password" dialog displays actual password
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 476484 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-13 00:03 UTC by Luke Macken
Modified: 2016-09-20 02:39 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-12-15 15:57:56 UTC
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Description Luke Macken 2008-12-13 00:03:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

The "Weak Password" dialog now displays the password itself.  Since the person reading it was the one who typed in the password, showing it to them is unnecessary and a security risk.  Also, this dialog seems to always pop up, regardless of the password strength.

http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/tmp/anaconda-password.png

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rawhide, 20081212
Comment 1 Luke Macken 2008-12-13 00:05:14 UTC 
Ricky threw together an untested patch that could potentially resolve this issue:

http://ricky.fedorapeople.org/anaconda-cracklib.patch
Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2008-12-15 13:45:16 UTC 
Fixing component.
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2008-12-15 15:06:19 UTC 
*** Bug 476484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2008-12-15 15:57:56 UTC 
This bug will be fixed in the next build of anaconda.  Thanks for the patch.
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