Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> (2013-08-21): > Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]): > > Hello tueslibre, > > > > Tuxicoman <[email protected]> (2013-08-20): > > > A proposal to fix this bug vould be : > > > 1. Have another texbox on the same screen where the user could test his > > > keyboard layout. > > > 2. Have an option to not mask the password in the textbox while typing it > > > like > > > we have on Android for example (only the last letter is shown) > > > > 2. has been mentioned in other bug reports already (WEP/WPA passphrases > > notably), and looks like a good idea. Needs someone to implement it > > though. > > I however wonder what this has to do with the installer. So we now > have yet another wrongly assigned bug report that will quietly sleep > in the BTS until someone takes care to triage it. > > In this case, it is however difficult to reassign as it should > theoretically assigned to everything that prompts for a password > (crypto stuff, login, various display managers, etc, etc.)
I think that's just a matter of implementing a checkbox (or similar) in debconf frontend, so that one can unmask the password at will? At least that's what was discussed for the WEP/WPA thing. Mraw, KiBi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
