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bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in clea
From: |
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) |
Subject: |
bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext |
Date: |
Sat, 4 May 2019 23:06:32 +0200 |
User-agent: |
NeoMutt/20180716 |
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> That’s why I think that seeing what you actually type is useful.
>
Seeing the password is useful, unless someone is shoulder surfing
while you install, which is possible.
> Other options include:
>
> 1. Hiding the passphrase, but display right above it something like:
>
> Keyboard layout: <layout name>
>
> 2. Adding a checkbox to toggle password visibility.
>
> #1 is probably not great because it doesn’t help if you don’t know
> precisely the layout.
>
> #2 would be nice; not sure how to do it, though.
>
> Ludo’.
>
#2 would please everybody, but I do not know what widgets Newt
provides for this. Mathieu, would you know if changing the
visibility with e.g. a checkbox is doable?
Regards,
Florian
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/05/03
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Danny Milosavljevic, 2019/05/03
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Julien Lepiller, 2019/05/03
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/05/03
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext,
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <=
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Mathieu Othacehe, 2019/05/05
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/05/05
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/05/06
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Mathieu Othacehe, 2019/05/06
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/05/06
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/05/06
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/05/06
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/05/06
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/05/07
- bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/05/06