[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#304350: Always ask for root passowrd twice, even on critical priority installs?

[Raul Miller]

On 6/12/05, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Honestly, I'm having hard times to make my own mind and I need help
> and "wise" advice on that issue. I personnally tend to favor the
> current choice of only one prompt, but this is definitely not a strong
> position.

Is this true even after the comments offered by Manoj and Stephen?

If so, here's another way to look at this issue:  It's a problem in the
prompting facilities used by debconf.

In principle whenever debconf prompts a user for type "password",
it should prompt twice (in other words, any prompting facility=20
which treats "password" different from "string" should have been
required to ask twice).  What we're thinking you should be doing=20
here is working around a flaw in the architecture of debconf where=20
this doesn't happen automatically.

Since you're using debonf you're stuck with this issue, at least
for now.  [And, unfortunately, changing this aspect of its=20
architecture might be rather annoying.]

--=20
Raul