I’m genuinely baffled by the current password safety checks in the installer.
Forcing users into specific password requirements without any option to bypass
them is downright excessive and borderline paranoid.

There are many cases where users don’t need, want, or care for the password
restrictions, especially in secure, personal environments where the users are
fully aware of what they’re doing. Not allowing an option to skip or bypass
this is just ridiculous. Users should have the flexibility to set their own
passwords, even if they don’t meet arbitrary complexity standards.

This is supposed to be a tool for installing the operating system, not a nanny.
Please consider implementing a bypass option in the password check, because
this restriction is frustrating and unnecessary.

Also reported upstream:
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/2370

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
calamares-settings-debian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1082020@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> (supplier of updated calamares-settings-debian package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:18:02 +0200
Source: calamares-settings-debian
Architecture: source
Version: 14.0.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org>
Changed-By: Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org>
Closes: 1060232 1082020 1109136 1109138
Changes:
 calamares-settings-debian (14.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * No change upload
 .
 calamares-settings-debian (14.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release
     - Reintroduce egg theme
     - Update branding for Debian 14
     - Set only password requirement to be at least 6 characters
       (Closes: #1082020, #1109136)
     - Disable lvm support (Closes: #1109138, #1060232)
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