[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#979176: Conflicting information about initial login/password

[David Prévot]

Hi Paul,

Le 17/01/2021 à 15:43, Paul Gevers a écrit :
[…]
> On 03-01-2021 22:16, David Prévot wrote:
>> /usr/share/doc/cacti/README.Debian pretends that “The default
>> login/password is admin/admin.” (line 8) but that doesn’t work.
> 
> That's below the text "if you've chosen to go the manual route".

Oh, indeed, I’m sorry: I just quickly skimmed at the text looking for 
the password information but didn’t bother to actually read the text (my 
intent was simply to check that an updated JS dependency didn’t 
obviously break the associated feature).

>> Reading a bit further, the “Default initial username/password” section
>> provides better (working) information, so maybe the line 8 should be
>> removed or replaced by a pointer to this section.
> 
> I think the text is still true. *If* the user didn't use dbconfig-common
> to setup cacti, then the default upstream password still applies, which
> is admin/admin.

Agreed, feel free to close the issue without further investigation.

> Do you think it helps if we put the "Default initial username/password"
> section first?

I guess it depends on the usual workflow of admin installing this 
package (I’d assume having dbconfig decently setup would be the default, 
but I may not be a representative sample).

If you expect most user to install the package via dbconfig, putting the 
related information first would make sense.

Moving the “default login/password” away from the “Installation” 
paragraph to make it part of the “Default initial username/password” 
paragraph might be less confusing.

Regards

David