On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Joel Sing <j...@sing.id.au> wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2011, Ted Unangst wrote: >> If I type the wrong password into bioctl at boot, disks don't exist, >> filesystems don't get mounted, and generally lots of things go wrong. All >> I need is a second chance to remind me to type the right password. > > Huh? Both you and Marco rejected this last year and when I last checked there > was no bioctl included in /etc/rc... I guess we need to decide if bioctl > should behave like su/passwd, sudo or like something else.
Oh, hmm, I guess experience changes everything. :) But that patch also made the user pick how many retries they wanted. I still think that's silly. Most things give you second chances, but I can't think of anything that requires a command line switch to do so.
