Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

[Lorenzo Beretta <lory.fulgi@infinito.it>]

Il 03/07/2010 12:50, Camaleón ha scritto:
> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
> > Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in
> > `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect
> > password' that should be said, as `root' is the (default) maintenance
> > user. Or that could be understood if `login' were to be taken in some
> > larger extent (which is also one of its definition). Would you consider
> > this as a bug?
>
> Well, it could be interpreted as "login incorrrect due to incorrect
> password" :-)
>
> The fact is that you are providing wrong credentials and there are only
> two possibilities, either username or password. Username was not asked so
> it only lasts the password.
>
> If you consider this a bug (it could be), better report it as a
> "whislist" bug.
>
> Greetings,
Methinks it's to make intrusions more difficult, that is, if it said 
"user ok - wrong pw" an intruder would *know* the username is ok and 
just focus on the password, while the way it is both username AND 
password must be guessed.

This is probably a bit weird for the root user, but definitely not 
incorrect imho.

Good luck with your p2