From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 35540@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 11:30:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190503113018.5be80808@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190503085437.opsw5whdkzmwrbrm@pelzflorian.localdomain>
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Hi,
On Fri, 3 May 2019 10:54:37 +0200
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:
> When creating an encrypted partition in Manual partitioning (maybe
> also Guided?) in the Newt installer, it asks for a password with which
> to encrypt the partition. However only the password confirmation
> password entry diplays ******* instead of the typed password, the
> password entry before displays the password in cleartext.
Yes. What about it is a bug? It would be very bad if you had a typo
in the partition encryption password, so it's good that it's visible.
If you want, we can make the password visible in both boxes.
But we shouldn't make it invisible in both boxes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-03 8:54 bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-03 9:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2019-05-03 9:50 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-05-03 13:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-04 21:06 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-05 11:04 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-05 14:36 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-06 10:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-06 12:15 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-06 13:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-06 18:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-06 19:29 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-06 19:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-07 8:13 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-06 19:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-07 7:27 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-03 10:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
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