Quoting wi...@infradead.org (wi...@infradead.org): > Package: installation-reports > > Image version: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo > timestamped 2016-11-28 06:24 > > I was installing over wifi, and encountered two problems. > > First, it said it needed non-free firmware for the iwlwifi that it > couldn't find ... but I'd used the non-free jigdo above, so I thought they > probably were on the USB stick. I asked it to look and it found them. > Why didn't it find them the first time? > > Second, it prompted me to enter the WPA2 passphrase, but it displays the > password as I typed it instead of masking it with dots the way that it > does for user & root passwords. >
This is #768914 and FWIW, I personnaly do not agree with changing the password phrase prompt to hide the text as typed. The only idea that comes to my mind is a (low priority) debconf question before the passphrase prompt, asking users whether they want the passphrase to be shown as typed or not. --
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