TWRP password protection as a safety (not security) mechanism

[mehrdadn]

Hi there, I was looking for TWRP password protection, and I read the FAQ, but I had another use case that wasn't addressed by it:

I'm just looking for a way to make it harder for nontechnical users (imagine elderly parents, grandparents, toddlers, etc. who may not even understand everything on the screen) to accidentally boot into a recovery mode like TWRP and wipe their data by tapping/swiping on the wrong screen. This is for users who already trust the family member who administers their device and who would desire this kind of feature, not as a security mechanism, but as a safety mechanism for themselves.

In such scenarios, the ability to bypass the password via physical access would be a feature, not a bug⁠—the goal is explicitly not to allow technical people to bypass it if they really need to. I think this would be a very valuable feature for such scenarios, so I thought I would post it here, as the FAQ seemed to focus solely on security and not consider other cases.