[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#714391: Bug#714391: cryptsetup-bin: build with support for pwquality?

[Jonas Meurer]

Hey,

Am 28.06.2013 22:41, schrieb Milan Broz:
> On 06/28/2013 09:59 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>> If you really consider password quality checking mechanisms a valid
>> feature request for cryptsetup, please discuss this issue upstream.
> 
> It is already there (but only for LUKS), just not enabled as default,
> see --enable-pwquality configure option.
> 
> libpwquality is central pw checker in system with common policy in RHEL/Fedora
> (I was not fan of this feature as well but no single report since
> we enabled it in Fedora.)
> 
> But in Debian this decision must be system wide and I think nobody is using
> libpwquality there yet (but I see it is in repo already).

Why not (as Christoph suggested) make it configurable to use pwquality
using a runtime commandline option? That way the decision would not need
to be taken system wide, right?

Kind regards,
 jonas