[systemd-devel] [PATCH] ask-password: Add --do-echo to enable echoing the user input

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 09/30/2014 04:08 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote on 30/09/14 16:19:
>> Hmm will this make that password visible to anyone who can watch the
>> user monitor?
>>
>> If that is the case then this is an bad practice since nothing should
>> ever echo the input for passwords
> If you read the context of the email this is for use in situations where
> you are collecting user input which is NOT a password...
>
> Read the thread and then you can disagree with it in a proper context ;)

Less a disagreement more "err on the side of caution" hence the question 
( without reading things in proper context )

JBG