Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-04 Thread Steven Shiau
Steven Shiau wrote: Marco Amadori wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009, 16:19:14, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 08:53:21 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Since what it's proposed expose the password in crypted way, it seems a better approach of what we got since today.

Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-04 Thread Steven Shiau
Marco Amadori wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009, 16:19:14, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 08:53:21 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Since what it's proposed expose the password in crypted way, it seems a better approach of what we got since today. I think it's worse,

Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 09:02:19 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009, 16:19:14, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 08:53:21 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > > > Since what it's proposed expose the password in crypted way, it seems > > > a better approach of what

Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-04 Thread Marco Amadori
On Wednesday 03 June 2009, 16:19:14, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 08:53:21 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > > Since what it's proposed expose the password in crypted way, it seems > > a better approach of what we got since today. > > I think it's worse, because it gives a false sen

Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 08:53:21 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > Since what it's proposed expose the password in crypted way, it seems > a better approach of what we got since today. > I think it's worse, because it gives a false sense of security. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-03 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, 16:23:18, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > I have sent this before, but the patch file I sent was not good, so I > > think it's why not being accepted. > In general, I'm not a fan of adding such a feature. Exposing passwords > and also their hashes to visible to any user (which

Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-02 Thread Steven Shiau
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Steven Shiau wrote: > >> Hi, >> > > Hi, > > Hi Daniel, >> I have sent this before, but the patch file I sent was not good, so I >> think it's why not being accepted. >> > > i hoped someone else would comment before I do, however.. here are my > thoughts. > >

Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Steven Shiau wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I have sent this before, but the patch file I sent was not good, so I > think it's why not being accepted. i hoped someone else would comment before I do, however.. here are my thoughts. In general, I'm not a fan of adding such a feature. Exposing passwords and a

[PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

2009-05-27 Thread Steven Shiau
Hi, I have sent this before, but the patch file I sent was not good, so I think it's why not being accepted. Therefore I patch that based on live-initramfs 1.157.2 and send it again. Hope you do not mind. Attached files are the patches to make live-initramfs to allow assigning user password from bo