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Re: Default admin password for a webapp



On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:54:38PM +0200, Xavier Luthi wrote:
> OK. Now let's suppose the password has not been set during the
> package configuration because debconf level was too high. The
> webapp won't allow any authentication becasue the password is not
> set. How to ask for a password?
[...]

People doing new package installs under these conditions are
expected to know where to find and how to read documentation. A
clear message in README.Debian describing how to generate the
password hash, what file/database table to put it in, and whether
any running services need to be (re)started should be more than
sufficient, I would think.
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