On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 12:37:47PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:29:02AM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 04:06:53AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > > Can people handle typing these passwords blindly?  I suspect yes.
> > > 
> > > Then this seems like a reasonable solution.
> > 
> > Other systems do the redacted typing thing, so you see **** instead of
> > what you actually typed;  I think we're used to that and blindly typing
> > is not much different... prompts like doas(1) do it as well.
> > 
> > I didn't test autoinstall(8) and thought that was a problem since this
> > diff changes the WEP/WPA passphrase questions from one to two answers if
> > you will, but now I remembered that this obviously isn't a problem for
> > the user password question either.
> > 
> > Anyone willing to test this for me or even OK it?
> > I can't do wifi installations here/now but am pretty confident that this
> > does the right thing.
> 
> New diff against -CURRENT.
> 
> I'll commit this diff once I get positive feedback/an OK or tested it
> myself.

I'm not a fan. WiFi passwords tend to be on the longer side and
nontrivial to type (they're also not things you tend to know by heart).
I would not expect to be able to type my WiFi password blindly.

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