I would like to include cracklib or something like
it into the distribution. Ideally, when you boot a brand new
64 Studio machine from an OEM, you should get a prompt asking you to
choose a root password, rather than having a default of 'root' or
whatever like some installations do.
Then if you choose a weak password, you should get an error message
like this: "That password is too easy to crack. Please choose another
one that is 12 characters or longer, not based on a dictionary word,
and contains numbers, punctuation marks or mixed case letters."