Bug#60444: password typeing on initial user creation should show "*" or "."
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:10:06PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:54:09AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Hi,
> > >>"Florian" == Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> writes:
> >
> > Florian> Entering a password for the user created on initial bootup
> > Florian> should show "*" or "." instead of nothing - Newbies could think
> > Florian> the keyboard doesnt work.
> >
> > The solution should be documenting this somewhere rather than
> > producing visible output -- the current behaviour is deemed to be
> > more secure, since even someone standing at ones shoulder shall not
> > know the length of the password.
>
> Probably just dont let it look like an "normal" input field - Just
> a small sentence "Enter your password:" and a rotating bar or something.
That would require modifying both dialog and whiptail. Most likely for
potato we could just add "(you will not see your typing)" would be easiest
to add in base-config for those dialogs.
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