[systemd-devel] Service to pause startup and wait for user input

[Tomasz Torcz 👁️]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 05:24:28PM +0000, Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) wrote:
> Good Afternoon List,
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to create a service unit that pauses early on in the boot sequence and asks the user a question?
> A reply would be required via keyboard.

  This is an antipattern, but I guess you can hask around password
asking mechanism,
  https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-ask-password.html


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