Bug ID 1222982
Summary autoyast ask password no repeat
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version Leap 15.5
Hardware x86-64
OS openSUSE Leap 15.5
Status NEW
Severity Enhancement
Priority P5 - None
Component AutoYaST
Assignee yast2-maintainers@suse.de
Reporter lars.bohl@gmail.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
Target Milestone ---
Found By ---
Blocker ---

Hello,

we could not figure out a good way to "ask" for a password. In this case, the
user needs to input an existing password, not create a new one.

Background information: If our pre-script detects a luks partition, we need to
open it, to see if any logical subvolumes exist. On system upgrade, we want to
preserve a logical subvolume with a certain label. The other subvolumes of the
luks partition will be used for root and swap, so they will be erased.

Current workaround (not ideal): Either use a "<password>" or use a basic text
"ask". Both are not ideal. With a "<password>" field, the user has to type the
password twice, which is unnecessary and confusing for a password input. The
"basic text" approach is also not ideal, because the user will see their
password on the screen as they type it.

Note: We've been using this documentation:
https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/autoyast/
We could not find a link to the source repository of the autoyast tool there.

Thank you for any suggestions.


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