On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:10:30PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:10:55AM +0100, Dave Restall - System > > Administrator wrote: > > > > A valid passwordless system is a _very_ rare case. > > > Who decides what "valid" is ? > > The admin. Later. > Is it your official statement then that it's reasonable for the > install to order the user to set something up, for no particularly > good reason, and then force the user to go again and reconfigure it?
It's a security thing: saving one user from accidently setting up root/etc without a password is well worth forcing someone who needs passwordless accounts to set it up twice. Joey might be changing it to a [y/N] prompt anyway though. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
