Allow empty password.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Fedora allows configuring no password during installation. I know of 2 people who I have suggested Linux to who have decided not to use it simply because a password appears mandatory.

It's not. passwd -d removes this necessity, which means that for such people who shall merely invoke that command subsequent to installation, this mandatory password field is silly, since it wastes time if they'll merely remove it again!

Would configuring YaST2 Security > Password Settings > Minimum Acceptable Password Length to be 0 by default potentially remediate this?

Supports #903.

[shundhammer]

Would configuring YaST2 Security > Password Settings > Minimum Acceptable Password Length to be 0 by default potentially remediate this?

I don't know. Simply try it.

But you know: The usual caveats: It will make your system a lot less safe.

But what's wrong with simply enabling auto-login?

It's the default anyway for TW (and IIRC for Leap 15.x as well).

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@shundhammer,

But what's wrong with simply enabling auto-login?

It bypasses much of what SDDM requests the user's password for:

appears upon login if autologin is enabled.

Additionally, when launching YaST,

still appears too, not that the Remember me button works anyway.

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I don't know. Simply try it.

It doesn't work, actually, unlike on every other Linux distribution I've tried. I think it's a bug with OpenSUSE:

PS /home/rokejulianlockhart> script -a
Script started, output log file is 'typescript'.

rokejulianlockhart@RQN6C6:~> sudo passwd -d $USER
[sudo] password for root: 
passwd: password changed.
rokejulianlockhart@RQN6C6:~> su $USER
Password: 
su: Authentication failure

demonstrates that setting it to nothing doesn't work, whereas

rokejulianlockhart@RQN6C6:~> passwd $USER
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
rokejulianlockhart@RQN6C6:~> su $USER
Password: 
rokejulianlockhart@RQN6C6:~>

demonstrates that, obviously, setting a password works.

That's why I asked the question. (Had Discussions have been available, I would have asked it there instead.)