[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Don't prompt for confirmation of DM password when installing a replica

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:14 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Don't prompt for confirmation of DM password when installing a replica.
>>
>> It implies that you are setting a new password and you really aren't.
> 
> That's true, but the password need to be confirmed, I think we should
> try a bind against the master and not proceed if we find out we can't
> bind, but instead fail gracefully after three attempts (prompting again
> for the password each time).

Sorry, I forgot to mention that. We do a bind to the master to make sure 
the password is ok before proceeding. We don't ask numerous times, we 
just fail gracefully if it is wrong (with a helpful message). Not a big 
difference between re-running the command and asking 3 times though.

> 
>> Also added a catch for KeyboardInterrupt with instructions on how to 
>> recover from a partial install.
> 
> this part is ok.
> 
> Simo.
> 

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