[enhancement] Password strength meter in account creation

[Chris Boyle]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Applications such as Keyring Manager have a password setting widget with a strength meter (and fancy circles instead of asterisks). Adding such a strength meter to the installer would improve the security of many users' initial passwords.

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Excellent idea.

[Chris Ford (christopher-ford)]

I was going to suggest this myself. Great idea, will greatly improve security.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

This could be implemented for Users control panel thing too, when setting up new users.

[Chris Ford (christopher-ford)]

The screenshots are just as I imagined. Any chance of this making it into 9.10

[Chris Ford (christopher-ford)]

I've made a slight change to the slider. Would this be possible?

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Yeah, thats cute too.
I stole the bar from KeePass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KeePass_add_entry_.png

[Thorsten Sick (modern-ronin)]

I found a page with the most famous passwords:

http://www.whatsmypass.com/?p=415

It should not be possible to choose a password from this list.
i hope this helps.

[Evan (ev)]

This was implemented as part of the Lucid development cycle. It will be in 10.04.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

This could also be added to 'users-admin' as part of the gnome-system-tools package.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Sure, if you want to implement it. But I'm not sure I'll work on that, given Matthias Clasen's accounts-dialog already has this feature, we may as well switch to it.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

What is 'Matthias Clasen's accounts-dialog' ?

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Matthias+Clasen%27s+accounts-dialog

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/files/2010/03/password.png
Ah, stuff like that is good!