Remove the advices for the choice of a good password (they are debatable). Point...

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+2008-05-21  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+
+       * man/passwd.1.xml: Remove the advices for the choice of a good
+       password (they are debatable). Point to
+       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength instead.
+
 2008-05-20  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
 
        * NEWS, libmisc/salt.c (SHA_salt_size): Seed the RNG, and fix a

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       </para>
 
       <para>
-       Your password must be easily remembered so that you will not be forced
-       to write it on a piece of paper. This can be accomplished by
-       appending two small words together and separating each with a
-       special character or digit. For example, Pass%word.
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
-       Other methods of construction involve selecting an easily remembered
-       phrase from literature and selecting the first or last letter from
-       each word. An example of this is:
-      </para>
-
-      <itemizedlist mark='bullet'>
-       <listitem>
-         <para>Ask not for whom the bell tolls</para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-         <para>which produces</para>
-       </listitem>
-       <listitem>
-         <para>An4wtbt</para>
-       </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
-      <para>
-       You may be reasonably sure few crackers will have included this in
-       their dictionaries. You should, however, select your own methods for
-       constructing passwords and not rely exclusively on the methods given
-       here.
+       You can find advices on how to choose a strong password on
+       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength
       </para>
     </refsect2>
   </refsect1>