Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:15:36AM +0530, root kea wrote:
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.
I suspect the whole thing has been discussed a long time and in great
depth somewhere else.
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
In this case I think you would have much more luck in at least getting
a discussion of the various merits of each approach, if not a change of
behaviour, by posting to the systemd-devel mailing list[1]
[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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