Hi,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email protected]> 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’.
