[systemd-devel] crypto: to show stars or not to show them

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 29.03.11 19:17, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at medozas.de) wrote:

> >> >I have now fixed git to accept both TAB and BS as silent mode switch
> >> >key. TAB at any time, and BS only if pressed as very first key on the
> >> >prompt. 
> >> >Everybody happy?
> >> 
> >> No. We don't need two keys to perform the same action. \t can go away.
> >
> >I think it has one big advantage: if you types something and then want
> >to hide it you can use that. Think: you type your passphrase, you notice
> >somebody looks over your shoulder, you press TAB and he's left in the
> >dark.
> 
> You did not seem to have troubles with the stars, so why are you now 
> discontent with how they are hidden? This \t thing and switching to 
> noecho mode on the Nth key smells terribly like overdesign.

Does it? It's a two line change.

I think discussing this much longer smells terribly like
bikeshedding... ;-)

Lennart

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