crypto: to show stars or not to show them
On Friday 2011-03-18 01:41, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>On Fri, 18.03.11 00:18, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh@medozas.de) wrote:
>
>> Meanwhile, I have two new suggestions.
>
>I have one too (or actually Kay came up with it), and I think you are
>going to like it:
>
>Start with showing input feedback as we currently do. If the user then
>presses TAB the stars disappear, and instead we show "(no echo)" or
>so. Then, the user can proceed with typing his password without
>asterisks.
>[...]
Incorporating Graham's suggestion to use BKSP instead:
The following changes since commit
65c9e467528daa438167853cc91d37bfcb875836:
tainted: don't check if /usr is a mount point, only if it's not already mounted at startup (2011-03-24 22:32:21 +0100)
are available in the git repository at:
git://dev.medozas.de/systemd master
Jan Engelhardt (1):
ask-password: provide a way to activate a silent prompt
src/ask-password-api.c | 11 +++++++----
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)