[Pkg-shadow-commits] r1996 - in upstream/trunk: . man

[nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org]

Author: nekral-guest
Date: 2008-05-21 18:25:48 +0000 (Wed, 21 May 2008)
New Revision: 1996

Modified:
   upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
   upstream/trunk/man/passwd.1.xml
Log:
Remove the advices for the choice of a good password (they are debatable). Point to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength instead.


Modified: upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/ChangeLog	2008-05-20 13:34:06 UTC (rev 1995)
+++ upstream/trunk/ChangeLog	2008-05-21 18:25:48 UTC (rev 1996)
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-05-21  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
+
+	* man/passwd.1.xml: Remove the advices for the choice of a good
+	password (they are debatable). Point to
+	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength instead.
+
 2008-05-20  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
 
 	* NEWS, libmisc/salt.c (SHA_salt_size): Seed the RNG, and fix a

Modified: upstream/trunk/man/passwd.1.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/passwd.1.xml	2008-05-20 13:34:06 UTC (rev 1995)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/passwd.1.xml	2008-05-21 18:25:48 UTC (rev 1996)
@@ -113,36 +113,9 @@
       </para>
 
       <para>
-	Your password must be easily remembered so that you will not be forced
-	to write it on a piece of paper. This can be accomplished by
-	appending two small words together and separating each with a
-	special character or digit. For example, Pass%word.
+	You can find advices on how to choose a strong password on
+	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength
       </para>
-
-      <para>
-	Other methods of construction involve selecting an easily remembered
-	phrase from literature and selecting the first or last letter from
-	each word. An example of this is:
-      </para>
-
-      <itemizedlist mark='bullet'>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Ask not for whom the bell tolls</para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>which produces</para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>An4wtbt</para>
-	</listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
-      <para>
-	You may be reasonably sure few crackers will have included this in
-	their dictionaries. You should, however, select your own methods for
-	constructing passwords and not rely exclusively on the methods given
-	here.
-      </para>
     </refsect2>
   </refsect1>