Re: Thoughts about network-console
Excerpts from Thibaut Girka's message of Mit Aug 04 07:57:46 -0400 2010:
> Second is quite the opposite: I would like to have a debconf boolean to
> display the password in the network-console/start note.
> The reason behind this is that, on some devices, with display and no
> usable input, we can (and were already doing) display
> network-console/start.
> On such devices, the password is set by a preseed file, so, showing it
> should be helpful to the user.
> I don't think there are strong security issues there, since somebody
> that have access to the screen probably have physical access to the
> device too.
> Making it a debconf boolean defaulting to false (and probably never
> displayed to the user?) should make it not be a security problem outside
> of the scope of the few devices with such preseeding.
+1 from me for showing the password in the debconf note for preseeded
passwords.
Context: Thibaut requests this for his GSoC project of d-i for the Neo
Freerunner. On the Freerunner d-i runs on the screen in text mode, but
there is no keyboard to interact with it.
Gaudenz
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