On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:06 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > More to the point, the vast majority of the other software *in Fedora* > that accepts passwords for any reason hides the passwords as they are > typed. If this is really broken (and who knows; neither side has > really produced much in the way of science), it needs to be fixed in > GTK (and Qt, and `passwd`, and a bunch of other places), not papered > over in anaconda.
Without intending to express any support for the change, I do think it's important to point out that anaconda is not the same as most of these other cases because there is substantial potential for keyboard mapping error. Most of the other contexts you've named are on an already running system where its harder to notice that your keyboard mapping is screwy. (OTOH, the stakes for a keyboard-remap-password-loss incident couldn't be lower than during install— at worst you're confused as a result and have to reinstall, but you don't lose data) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
