[systemd-devel] [PATCH] ask-password: Add --echo to enable echoing the user input
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sun Oct 5 13:02:21 PDT 2014
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 03:53:45PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:
> Programs such as OpenVPN may use ask-password for not only retrieving
> passwords, but also usernames. Masking usernames with * seems just silly.
>
> v2 - Don't mess with termios flags, instead print the input
> instead of an asterix. Resolves issues with backspace
> and TAB input.
>
> v3 - Renamed 'do_echo' variables and argument to 'echo'. Also
> modified the ask_password_{tty,agent,auto} API instead of
> additional wrapper functions.
Hi,
I applied the patch, but without the change to ask_passowrd_auto(),
since that seemed unused.
Zbyszek
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