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 -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281036853-sup-2...@meteor.durcheinandertal.local
