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Re: fascism in pam_unix_passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Nov 8 13:52:54 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:28:15 EST."
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 13:36:53 -0500
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"Joseph S. D. Yao" writes:
>We know where you're coming from; but users of this might not. Shall
>we change the "fascist" flag, both internally and externally, to
>"tight_checking"?
If it's changed, I'd like it to be at least reasonably comprehensible.
Perhaps "strict" would be reasonable. However, in any case, I'll leave
in "fascist" as an option, even if it's undocumented. It's called an
"in joke" for those who have read the GNU su man page (in the original;
Red Hat Linux ships with a changed one with RMS's tirade removed, since
PAM allows what he calls fascism).
>Also suggest that FascistCheck() be re-named TightCheck(). Etc.
OK, this is going *way* too far.
First of all, I refuse to participate in a PC code cleanup.
Second, FascistCheck() is a function in cracklib which many programs
which do password strength checking rely on. Changing it would be
an extremely silly idea. I'm not going to try to convince people
to make a non-backwards-compatible change in a function name because
someone might be offended by it. If you want to change cracklib,
go talk to its author(s).
My religious beliefs, among other opinions, put me in a position to
be offended by plenty of things that I read on usenet, sometimes
this list, and even in source code (some people put some *very*
strange things in their source code... :-). But I'm not out
campaigning to make people stop making those comments, and I won't
participate in a PC cleanup even of things that directly offend me
-- including political correctness. So even though I find political
correctness offensive, I won't try to stop you from starting a movement
to clean up non-PC references in free software -- I just resent efforts
to involve me in the process.
michaelkjohnson
"Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?"
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