Why not let the administrator decide?
Why not let the administrator decide?
Posted Aug 13, 2026 8:56 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Why not let the administrator decide? by Wol
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
That's roughly 100 bits of entropy - all 5 words in your password are in /usr/share/dict/words on my system, and that file has a bit under 219 entries, plus adding a few bits to allow for the fact that capitalized dictionary words is not the only option here.