Re: Always ask for root passowrd twice, even on critical priority installs?
On 6/12/05, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Honestly, I'm having hard times to make my own mind and I need help
> and "wise" advice on that issue. I personnally tend to favor the
> current choice of only one prompt, but this is definitely not a strong
> position.
Is this true even after the comments offered by Manoj and Stephen?
If so, here's another way to look at this issue: It's a problem in the
prompting facilities used by debconf.
In principle whenever debconf prompts a user for type "password",
it should prompt twice (in other words, any prompting facility
which treats "password" different from "string" should have been
required to ask twice). What we're thinking you should be doing
here is working around a flaw in the architecture of debconf where
this doesn't happen automatically.
Since you're using debonf you're stuck with this issue, at least
for now. [And, unfortunately, changing this aspect of its
architecture might be rather annoying.]
--
Raul
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