passwd: Bad password, too simplistic ???
 

am using an encrypted home directory, and mounting it with pam_mount

so i decided to change my passowrd from my usual 8 character password to a more secure one.

i managed to think of a 35 character passphrase that contains upper and lowerf#case letters, numbers, and symbols, and half the words in the passphare are not real words in any language. AND... i can easily remember it.

why does passwd think that this password is too simplistic !!??

Hi,

Could it be that only the first 8 chars of your 35 long password are used/checked?

Take a look in your /etc/login.defs or appropriate pam config file.

Hope this helps.

attempting to logon and entering the first 34 characters correctly causes an invalid password respoce, so it must be using all 35.

is this just a bug in passwd ?
surely a 35character passphrase with upper case, lower case, symbols, and only partially made up or read words (to prevent optimised dictionalry hacks) SHOULD be as good as passwords can get right ?

ive dont the maths, and the password is theoretically as secure as the resulting hash used to by the aes cipher.