+1 from me. I like the idea of being able to hide the password prompt, but not by default.
It's one of those "Oh, someone is looking over my shoulder, I should hit tab" things. On a slightly different note; Would it be possible to watch for unprintable keys? For example, what about a single backspace/delete at the start of the prompt, before you've entered anything? I'm used to tab making things appear, not making things disappear. On the other hand, I'm used to backspace/delete making things disappear; so it feels more logical to me. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 18.03.11 00:18, Jan Engelhardt ([email protected]) 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. > > This should be strictly one way however: you can enter the no-echo mode > but not leave it anymore. For two reasons: so that people cannot take > over your machine and make visible what you explicitly wanted to hide: > the length of your password. And secondly, there might be weird folks > with Tabs in their passphrases (though they are probably going through > hell if they do), and by pressing TAB twice they thus have a way to > enter a single TAB. > > If you prep a patch for this logic I'd merge it right-away and I think > both of us should be perfectly happy, right? > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- [ Graham Cantin ] | (408) 890-7463 - Google Voice FindME [ NASA Ames Research ] | Building 19, Moffett Field, CA "As living spies we must recruit men who are intelligent but appear to be stupid; who seem to be dull but are strong in heart; men who are agile, vigorous, hardy, and brave; well-versed in lowly matters and able to endure hunger, cold, filth, and humiliation." - Tu Mu (803-825)
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