Description of problem: Copy and Paste doesn't work when the system request that you type the root password you want before the installation process began. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 preview How reproducible: Begin installation select language, partitions, and it's on the root password request step. Actual results: Type the password, black dots appear on the screen as usual, select copy by keyboard shortcut or by right mouse button. Go to confirm box and paste. Press next and it will say that passwords doesn't match. Expected results: I think that copy and paste rigth mouse button menu (and keyboard shortcut) must be disabled in this step because it confuses user by having an option that does not work. Additional info: The same may happen when encription partition password is requested.
Why do you think this is a bug? Copying and pasting the password seems to defeat the process of verifying that you entered the correct password.
You're right, but it's a common practice. Another case is if you have a password like: MYPASSWORDMYPASSWORD and you want to copy and paste in the same first box, it doesn't work. I just say it must be easy to disable cut and paste in this screen to avoid user confusion.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This is actually due to GTK. When you highlight the text in the first box, you're highlighting the bullets. So then when you go to paste it into the second box, you're pasting bullets in as the second password. So of course they don't match. Nor do I see any obvious way to disable copy-and-paste for just these dialogs. I don't think there's anything we can do here.