+1 from me. I like the idea of being able to hide the password prompt, but not by default.<div><br></div><div>It's one of those "Oh, someone is looking over my shoulder, I should hit tab" things.</div><div><br>
</div><div>On a slightly different note; Would it be possible to watch for unprintable keys?</div><div><br></div><div>For example, what about a single backspace/delete at the start of the prompt, before you've entered anything?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm used to tab making things appear, not making things disappear.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, I'm used to backspace/delete making things disappear; so it feels more logical to me.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Lennart Poettering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 18.03.11 00:18, Jan Engelhardt (<a href="mailto:jengelh@medozas.de">jengelh@medozas.de</a>) wrote:<br>
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> Meanwhile, I have two new suggestions.<br>
<br>
</div>I have one too (or actually Kay came up with it), and I think you are<br>
going to like it:<br>
<br>
Start with showing input feedback as we currently do. If the user then<br>
presses TAB the stars disappear, and instead we show "(no echo)" or<br>
so. Then, the user can proceed with typing his password without<br>
asterisks.<br>
<br>
This should be strictly one way however: you can enter the no-echo mode<br>
but not leave it anymore. For two reasons: so that people cannot take<br>
over your machine and make visible what you explicitly wanted to hide:<br>
the length of your password. And secondly, there might be weird folks<br>
with Tabs in their passphrases (though they are probably going through<br>
hell if they do), and by pressing TAB twice they thus have a way to<br>
enter a single TAB.<br>
<br>
If you prep a patch for this logic I'd merge it right-away and I think<br>
both of us should be perfectly happy, right?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Lennart<br>
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.<br>
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