Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:15:36AM +0530, root kea wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:58 PM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> > So you might try to write your own agent, or file a wishlist
> > bug.
>
> I want *default* password agent to be consistent with traditional *Nix
> password handling. And that is echoing NOTHING at all.
>
> I am amazed that at times I had to defend not wanting stars(*) getting
> echoed on terminal on *Linux* box. That should have been other way
> around. That is the onus to defend should be on the one who wants
> stars(*) being echoed on Terminal.
That's the main reason I avoid systemd: there are quite a few good ideas
in there, and the folks making it are pretty good, but generally pretty
opinionated too. But who knows, perhaps you can persuade them. Or...
we might have overseen something.
> Anyways, thank you for helping me out! I learned a thing or two thanks to you!
>
> And I just filed a bug report [0]. if anybody interested they can
> follow the discussion there.
>
> [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884788
Thanks for that, and eager to learn how this unfolds.
Cheers
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