Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:25:45PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> Hi,
> I need some help about the use of debconf notes. One of my (web)
> packages need to setup a password for the administrator account.
> If the debconf priority is too high (or the system administrator chose
> the noninteractive frontend) I have to automatically generate a password
> because I can't continue without it.
>
> Now, what is the standard way to deal with this issue? I've read on
> debconf-devel that a note could be used for this purpose[1], but I
> wasn't able to have that password emailed to root or to have the
> install halted and waiting for a key.
I would prefer to have a functionality left disabled, or have the
autogenerated password not displayed to me, than to have it displayed
on the screen without any warning.
I seem to recall that the chrony* packages create a password, which
may be used by an admin via the client to check on the daemon; the
password is changable
> I'm clueless...
Did you ever get "note" to work?
Justin
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