Bug#254411: (no subject)

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

reassign 254411 newt
retitle 254411 Passwords don't result in * or so echoed
thanks

* Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li> [2004-06-14 17:34]:
> When entering passwords to set up accounts, you don't get *s as you
> type.  This is actually fairly standard for Linux, of course, but
> users tend to find it disorienting especially when there's an
> obvious "box" they are typing into.

I'm not quite sure which program is responsible for this, but maybe
newt.

> In general, dialog box navigation could be explained better. In
> particular the user kept having to be prompted to use TAB to move
> between elements; quite possibly this is in some help somewhere or
> there is a better way, I'm just describing the problems this user
> had.

I think this is http://bugs.debian.org/252751  Can you confirm?

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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com