Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars
On 12/18/17, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:53:27PM +0100, Jeroen Mathon wrote:
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> Don't forget to cc root kea, (s)he isn't on list. And oh, don't
> top post... pretty please :-)
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>> I have never seen any stars in my Luks screen.
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>> As long as it decrypts the drive i see no real issue here.
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> Perhaps root kea doesn't want others to see the passphrase's
> length? Perhaps it's just custom? Being able to configure
> that seems a legitimate wish, to me at least.
It crossed my mind, too, that root kea wanted to mask the ability to
see password length. I've relied a little on that password length hint
a time or two out on the Net when using my own passwords.
These days I've noticed a few places will mask the length by showing
the wrong number of asterisks. I've seen it go either way where there
are more asterisks or less asterisks than the actual length of website
access passwords. If I encounter that feature again soon, I'll come
back and update with where it was seen.
Cindy :)
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Cindy-Sue Causey
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