[gobolinux-devel] [GoboLinux 014-release candidate 0000221]: Installer disallowing empty SuperUser password

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:46:33 +0100, <bugs at gobolinux.org> wrote:

>
> The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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> http://bugs.gobolinux.org/view.php?id=221
>Summary:                    Installer disallowing empty SuperUser password
> Description:
> Right now you can not set "empty" passwords.
>
> The problem is that the installer decides this for you, not you as user.
> (Admittedly this is a super-trivial thing but at least a dev can explain
> why it should be this or that way. I explain my point of view on it soon.)
>
> I propose the:
>   "may not set empty passwords"
> during Installer be changed to a warning instead like this:
>   "Warning - it is not recommended to have an empty password for the
> superuser account. If you insist to have this though, just continue."
>
> or similar in wording.

I'm not sure about what others think of this, but I agree that allowing an
empty superuser password can be a valid option in some cases. I've attached
my proposal for a solution for this issue. It locks the superuser account,
like how it's done in ubuntu, if no password is given. It also notices the
user about this and warns about not adding a user with superuser privileges
if the superuser account is locked. I don't know if it should be possible
to continue if one has a locked superuser account and hasn't added a user
with superuser privilages, but I choose this because I remember the
discussion about having to add users even if one didn't want to.

-- 
/Jonas

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