Re: Bug#294783: passwd: root-password-again and user-password-again should be "critical"
El dom, 13-02-2005 a las 08:06 +0100, Christian Perrier escribió:
> > In my opinion, ask again the password is required.
> >
> > Imagine a password like "a7s9fu29puo121", it is very dangerous
> > introduce just one time! Really, it doesn't matter the "complexity" of
> > the password, it could mean an extra effort to recover the well
> > operation of the system.
>
> You're missing the point of the critical priority in debconf, imho.
>
> >
> > debconf-devel(7)...
> >
> > INPUT priority question
> > critical
> > Items that will probably break the system without user intervention.
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > If the matter is "probability", it could be great discuss this.
>
> Nope. The above is about the requested info missing which would be
> likely to break the system.
>
> Here, the password confirmation value missing will not break the
> system, will not prevent the package to configure. The installation
> will go on and the whole system will be usable.
Ok, the system wont break, but you wont be able to access it. So the
user will be in trouble.
> Again and again and again (and probably for the very last time), we
> are not talking about default installs here. The critical priority is
> meant for quick installs with absolutely minimal prompting, ie only
> questions chiwh are absolutely vital for the install to be completed
> are asked.
I'm agree, but ask twice it's an extra effort to the user that can
benefit a lot.
> All people who would like to change this are requested to bring the
> input from the technical commitee about this issue.
>
> At this very moment, I have heard from 3-4 people who would like to
> change this behaviour. It seems to me that not changing it is the
> opinion of several D-I contributors (from the IRC channel log). So,
> this is very balanced.....
>
> Anyway, this will not change for sarge. This is by far too late.
That's no problem :) i will be here (i hope) for the next release.
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