Bug 114952

Summary:	problems with 'always ask for password' (was: wrong sequence in provider dialog)
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Karsten Keil <karsten.keil>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	provider dialog Provider dialog in 10.3

Description Karsten Keil 2005-09-02 12:42:45 UTC

'always ask password' should be before the password field in the first 
provider page.  
If you uncheck "always ask password" you must go back to enter the password 
(I got complains from betatest for this too). 
 
Second issue: with ISDN I strongly recommend to not use "always ask password" 
this let to many problems in the past, since it only work properly if you use 
it with full manually mode, with dial on demand or STARTMODE onboot, it do not 
start the interface, since it cannot start without the password. 
Yes I know that this a problem regards security guidelines.

Comment 1 Martin Vidner 2005-09-05 09:13:32 UTC

What is the problem? Having to press Shift-Tab instead of Tab? This is a   
trivial issue.   
   
About the default: bug 59836 discusses why it was turned on. I don't think we   
can revert it, much less at this stage. If it interferes with other options,   
we can add help texts or, if it always breaks, warning popups. 
 
What do you suggest?

Comment 2 Karsten Keil 2005-09-05 10:00:00 UTC

The sequence is about usability, it's very uncommon and may irritate people, 
that they change a option, next must go back and than they come again to this 
option, it's the wrong flow. Add Sigi for a comment. 
 
I would say that in case of ISDN we should add a popup if 'always ask 
password' and Startmode 'onboot' or 'hotplug' is set. It should be say 
something like: "always ask for password will only work for startmode 
'manual'".

Comment 3 Siegfried Olschner 2005-09-05 11:39:26 UTC

Can someone out there provide some screenshots of the dialog pages as an 
attachment? Or are current shots available somewhere in an /Export?

Comment 4 Karsten Keil 2005-09-05 12:03:12 UTC

Created attachment 48783 [details]
provider dialog

Comment 5 Karsten Keil 2005-09-15 10:34:36 UTC

all infos are already given.

Comment 6 Martin Vidner 2006-08-28 11:52:25 UTC

Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network.

Comment 7 Ted Bullock 2007-08-12 21:43:53 UTC

Created attachment 156978 [details]
Provider dialog in 10.3

Here is the new Provider dialog in 10.3.  The checkbox and password fields are lined up with the username field.  It looks pretty usable.

Any Problems with closing this bug?

Comment 8 Ted Bullock 2007-08-12 22:00:57 UTC

No apparent problems with closing this at this time as per bug slash day so closing with fixed