<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - The tty-ask-password-agent does not use all devices of /dev/console" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82004#c2">Comment # 2</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - The tty-ask-password-agent does not use all devices of /dev/console" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82004">bug 82004</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" title="Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"> Lennart Poettering</a> <pre>I am not convinced this is really a good idea. I mean, we don't start gettys on all configured kernel consoles either, no rescue shell, no emergency shell. On Linux, /dev/console is a weird thing. It's output is dirtsibuted to multiple ttys, but it's input is not merged (and that'd even be difficult becuase it would be unclear what $TERM would be right for such a case). Just adding support for this to the text password prompt is just a work-around for one specific case...</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>