Re: Install Report II (The Revenge; bf 3.0.7 (beta); Acer Laptop; floppy/basedebs)

To: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net>
Cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Install Report II (The Revenge; bf 3.0.7 (beta); Acer Laptop; floppy/basedebs)
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:26:31 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 20010703202630.E12944@kitenet.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010703153931.A6746@kitenet.net>

Joey Hess wrote:
> I have a problem with the idea that someone could hit enter a few times
> by accident and end up with a passwordless system.
> 
> A valid passwordless system is a _very_ rare case.

OTOH, there's probably nothing wrong with turning the "your password is
empty" prompt into a "your password is empty, wannt keep it that way
[yN]" prompt (note defalut is NO). Feel free to suggest that to the
maintainer of passwd.

-- 
see shy jo

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