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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.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, 03 May 2019 12:07:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muk3etqi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190503085437.opsw5whdkzmwrbrm@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Fri, 3 May 2019 10:54:37 +0200")

Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> 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.

This is done on purpose as I wrote in commit
453c976501bb4d5c4c6b832b7c0c1ec3d493b80f:

         ;; Note: Don't use FLAG-PASSWORD here because this is the
         ;; first bit of text that the user types in, so it's
         ;; probably safer if they can see that the keyboard layout
         ;; they chose is in effect.

I’m not entirely sure this is the right thing to do, but I thought that
as a user I’d want to make sure I really typed what I thought I typed.

WDYT?

Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-03 10:08 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
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 [this message]

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