[Pam-developers] [linux-pam] #54: Make strings used on login screen user-friendly

#54: Make strings used on login screen user-friendly --------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: catanzaro | Owner: pam-developers@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Component: modules Version: 1.2.x | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: --------------------------+------------------------------ Hi, For Fedora Workstation we would like to make some changes to strings in Linux-PAM that appear on the login screen, to make the user experience a bit more simple. Some of these strings contain technical terminology that we'd like to remove: "You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)." The problem with this string is that we expect users do not understand what a root account is. "(current) UNIX password:" "Enter new UNIX password:" "Retype new UNIX password:" The problem with these strings is that we do not expect users to understand what UNIX is. A user might become confused as to how a UNIX password differs from a normal password, and not realize they are the same thing. At first I thought we might want to add an opt-in configuration setting to tell PAM to avoid technical terminology in its prompts, in order to avoid changing the strings sent to command-line applications like passwd (where the user is expected to understand concepts like UNIX and root), but since the required changes are so simple, I think it's probably best to avoid this...? -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/ticket/54> linux-pam <http://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam> The Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) project