On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 09:06:23PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >i don't like the idea of setting a random password arbitrarily because > >it could lead to confusion, especially for existing installations. > > Only doing it for new installations is enough IMO.
okay.
> >furthermore, i don't like the idea of putting a mysql adm password in a
> >file or otherwise communicating it to the admin on general principle.
>
> It's a bit hard to argue against 'general principle'.
fair enough :)
> >i like the idea of prompting the admin for a password, but only in a way
> >that won't be be annoying. that is, it shouldn't ask the admin if
> >the password is already set, and it shouldn't ask the admin every time.
>
> Sounds reasonable, but isn't possible depending on debconf priority level.
> It also introduces additional questions which is not an advantage on
> general principle, especially if it can be avoided. :)
> What if the question doesn't get asked?
if the admin does not provide a password (by either answering blank
or because of not even seeing the question), then no action is taken,
and we have the same situation as we do now.
the reason why iwouldn't want to fall back to a random password is
that it's possible that the admin doesn't want a password set, and
it would be nice if we could respect that.
of course, we could also maybe make a special exception for if
the admin chooses "random" as the password, and set it randomly then,
but then that would not get most of the benefits you want i suppose.
sean
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