On 6/9/05, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some people have argued this does against all established practices in > such matter. Others have argued that the way to install a system is a > very specific way and that, after all, the password confirmation is > not *mandatory* to have the process continuing. > > As the arguments seems quite solid both ways, I take the hard way and > hereby ask about Your Wise Advice. The discussion inside the D-I team > did not yield to a very strong advice, too, as far as I have analysed.
I must admit that I don't understand the argument for asking only once. Could someone spell out those reasons for me? I mean, I understand that implementing "ask only once" is slightly simpler. But but given that there's we're talking about a password prompt, which provides the user no feedback (thus preventing the usual mechanism for detecting keyboarding problems), this doesn't seem to me to be a good idea. If the point is that there's some other interface involved here -- where we're not really talking about a prompt but about a machine interface -- I could see a "only prompt once" policy making sense. Anyways, if someone could spell out these arguments a bit further it would help a lot. Thanks, -- Raul