[pve-devel] [PATCH installer 0/3] raise minimum root password length to 8 characters

[Christoph Heiss]

This idea came to light while talking with Shannon about #5756 [0].

It is 2024, so raising the minimum length for the root password as
entered during the installation from 5 to 8 characters seems very
sensible. NIST also recommends a minimum length of 8 characters for
passwords [1].

In the GUI installer, we already recommend passwords of length 8 or
greater during the respective installation step.

See also the respective patches for PVE [2] and PBS [3].

[0] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5756
[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html#passwordver
[2] https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20241004133205.258755-1-s.sterz@proxmox.com/
[3] https://lore.proxmox.com/pbs-devel/20241004134054.263913-1-s.sterz@proxmox.com/

Christoph Heiss (3):
  proxinstall: raise minimum root password length to 8 characters
  tui: raise minimum root password length to 8 characters
  auto-installer: raise minimum root password length to 8 characters

 Proxmox/Makefile                                      |  1 +
 Proxmox/Sys.pm                                        |  6 ++++++
 proxinstall                                           |  8 ++++++--
 proxmox-auto-installer/src/utils.rs                   |  5 +++++
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/disk_match.json      |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/disk_match.toml      |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/disk_match_all.json  |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/disk_match_all.toml  |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/disk_match_any.json  |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/disk_match_any.toml  |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/minimal.json         |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/minimal.toml         |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/nic_matching.json    |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/nic_matching.toml    |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/specific_nic.json    |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/specific_nic.toml    |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/zfs.json             |  2 +-
 .../tests/resources/parse_answer/zfs.toml             |  2 +-
 proxmox-installer-common/src/lib.rs                   |  3 +++
 proxmox-tui-installer/src/main.rs                     | 11 ++++++-----
 20 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Proxmox/Sys.pm

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