liveCD default password change?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:33:57AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:06:35PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The default is now a locked password.  It hadn't occurred to me that anyone
> > would try to lock the screen on the live CD. :-)  It had a static password
> > before, and so this didn't provide any security anyway.
> > 
> > What should it do if you try?  Activate the (non-locked) screensaver?
> > Should we omit the option from the menu entirely?
> > 
> > Ideally, xscreensaver would notice a locked password and refuse to lock the
> > screen, but this may not be feasible.
> 
> It sounds much better to warn and refuse to lock the screen on a locked
> password than to omit the option from the menu, since an enterprising
> user could change the password to something only they knew, at which
> point locking the screen would be useful.

Does PAM even let us check that?

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 - mdz