I have been made aware of showing stars when entering passwords for crypttab volumes through systemd's integrated scripts/programs is considered a "feature". Well, I don't concur there. Potential overseers could count the stars, which is not so thrilling. Which is probably why UNIX and/or its descendants have had no-stars password prompt pretty much throughout (/bin/passwd, ssh, and whatelse you can think of).
Some argue that not showing stars makes it harder to backspace. That may be true to some extent, since you don't know when to stop hitting backspace. This in turn has led some programs to simply implement either three-stars-per-char, but what is really wanted in such a case is simply a way to merely start over. Sometimes enter works (in case of login prompts that repeat forever, like getty or xdms), and for those programs that would like to exit some day (passwd, cryptsetup, etc.), catching ^C or perhaps ^\ might be in order. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
