Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:22:13 +0100 From: "Joel Dahl" <joel@automatvapen.se> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/75235: [patch] Handbook: chapter 2.9.16, add sentence about passwords not being echoed Message-ID: <20041218212138.DE93937E42@smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200412182130.iBILUMlM099555@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 75235
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Handbook: chapter 2.9.16, add sentence about passwords not being echoed
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 18 21:30:21 GMT 2004
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Joel Dahl
>Release: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dude.automatvapen.se 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Sat Nov 13 19:50:36 CET 2004 joel@dude.automatvapen.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WRK i386
>Description:
I'd like to add a small sentence to section 2.9.16 in the handbook,
just to clarify that nothing echoes when you type a new password
for root, which seems to confuse some people (especially users
coming from Windows).
Comments?
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- rootecho.diff begins here ---
Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.306
diff -u -r1.306 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 12 Dec 2004 14:32:56 -0000 1.306
+++ chapter.sgml 18 Dec 2004 20:55:32 -0000
@@ -4492,7 +4492,8 @@
<para>The password will need to be typed in twice correctly. Needless to
say, make sure you have a way of finding the password if you
- forget.</para>
+ forget. Notice that the password you type in is not echoed, nor
+ are asterisks displayed.</para>
<screen>Changing local password for root.
New password :
--- rootecho.diff ends here ---
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