On 2017-12-21, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 01:02:51PM +0000, Curt wrote: > > [...] > >> Now we want to change the default. Give them the moon, and they want the >> stars, too! > > Who is "them"? "Not us"? > > Perhaps you're trying to construe a conflict where, actually there > isn't one. > > Now if I were in charge of systemd-ask-password, I'd be willing to > incorporate suppression of the stars as a user-configurable option, > but I'd be firmly against changing the default. > > YMMV. We are in severe agreement.
>> Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies >> as "security by obscurity [...] > > I'm certain. It doesn't. Here too. > Cheers > - -- t > > -- "An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats." — George Orwell
