Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-13 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 09:26 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Emmet Hikory wrote: > > I "really, really" wanted to do it to ease working with tools that > > request graphical sudo authentication for devices that didn't have > > keyboards. Yes, this is pointlessly insecure, and yes, there are input > >

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-13 Thread Frans Pop
Emmet Hikory wrote: > I "really, really" wanted to do it to ease working with tools that > request graphical sudo authentication for devices that didn't have > keyboards. Yes, this is pointlessly insecure, and yes, there are input > tools that can be used in some cases, but these tend to be fa

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
Emmet Hikory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fair enough. While it makes it easier for me to do what I'm doing, > the fact that it's a rare use case, insecure-by-default, and not too > hard to script is sufficient for me to withdraw the request in the face > of any opposition, rather than fix t

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-10 Thread Emmet Hikory
Frans Pop wrote: >> For most use cases, this is clearly entirely the correct behaviour. In >> those rare cases where someone really, really, wants to have an empty >> password for an automatically created user, it would be nice if >> user-setup would allow this directly, rather than requiring work

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-10 Thread Frans Pop
> For most use cases, this is clearly entirely the correct behaviour. In > those rare cases where someone really, really, wants to have an empty > password for an automatically created user, it would be nice if > user-setup would allow this directly, rather than requiring workarounds > such as res

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-10 Thread Emmet Hikory
Otavio Salvador wrote: > Except by a newline before the new comments your patch looks right. Thanks for the review. I've attached an updated patch, also against r56349 that includes the newline. -- Emmet HIKORY Index: debian/user-setup-udeb.templates

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-10 Thread Otavio Salvador
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Emmet Hikory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've created the patch against revision 56349 in SVN, but would be happy >> to update it to a newer revision with modifications if requested. > > Your patch doesn't follow the coding style (I guess you did

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-10 Thread Otavio Salvador
Emmet Hikory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've created the patch against revision 56349 in SVN, but would be happy > to update it to a newer revision with modifications if requested. Your patch doesn't follow the coding style (I guess you did it to avoid a bigger diff) and would be nice if you c

Bug#501849: Please permit installation with an empty user password

2008-10-10 Thread Emmet Hikory
Package: user-setup Version: 1.23 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch When performing an install, the user cannot proceed without entering a non-empty password. This remains the case even when an empty password has been specifically