Spaced repetition will fail if screen lock or administration password are set in advance #77
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This hasn't been reproduced but based on the code this will occur as
passwd
requests 3 lines of input not 2 when they already have an amnesia password.Proposed fix: if
passwd
fails ask user for their User Account password. They will probably know this as a "screen lock password" if regular user and it is their "Administration password" if they have privileges, there is a script bundled in Tails to tell me which type of user they are to use the appropriate text.Then passwd can be recalled in an until loop as follows
printf "$user_password\n$luks_passphrase\n$luks_passphrase" | passwd
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