[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] don't echo passwords

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Wed Sep 12 19:50:24 UTC 2007


William Jon McCann wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 14:27 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
>>> Oh.  That wasn't obvious to me.  In any case it is probably better to
>>> default to "yes" for the suggested realm name.
>> Uhmm not sure about that, opinions?
>>
> 
> Or, what about this:
> 
> "Please provide a realm name: [PHA.JHU.EDU]: "
> 
> Don't mean to be annoying about this - it isn't a big deal.  But from
> a first time installer point of view the process seemed a little
> awkward.  In my experience a good rule of thumb is to always produce a
> workable configuration in response to the user hitting enter for all
> prompts...
> 

+1. This is what most other interactive installers do.

rob
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