Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (87 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Ian Grant wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:24:39 -0500
> Lee Mayes <autoinst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Ian Grant wrote:
> > > Dear List,
> > >
> > > Having recently resurrected my info file using the kernel parameter
> > > info=file:///info I get prompted (by linuxrc?) to enter a VNC
> > > password. [...]
> >   I guess it's a new rule with 10.2. I can reproduce this, but only if
> >   
> > the VNC password I chose is less than 8 characters.  I don't recall
> > this  password checking before.
> 
> Thanks, that's interesting. The password I am using is 10 characters and
> it passes cracklib-check. ... I should have said that this password is
> OK if it's only in the options on the kernel command line. So if you are
> right then the checking is only being done for passwords specified in
> the info file, not ones on the kernel command line, which is a bit weird

That's not true. And there's no max length check either.

You get the prompt either if the password is too short or there is none set
at all. Maybe your info file is not read? Press ^C, then 'i' in linuxrc to
see current config and look for 'vncpassword'.


Steffen
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