[systemd-devel] systemd-tty-ask-password-agent, new warning

[Andrei Borzenkov]

08.07.2025 19:57, James Muir (jamesmui) wrote:
> I upgraded from v255.4 to v255.13 (these are tags from https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable), I now see the following warning when I manually start a service:
> 
> root at vbox:~/tmp# systemctl start systemd-journald
> Failed to execute /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent: No such file or directory
> 
> If I use the flag “--no-ask-password”, then the warning is not printed.
> 
> I get my systemd distribution from OpenEmbedded.
> 
> They split out some components (including systemd-tty-ask-password) into a separate package, systemd-extra-utils, which I do not install to save space.
> 
> Is systemd-tty-ask-password still an optional component?
> 
> Is this new behaviour (where systemd-tty-ask-password is repeatedly executed) intentional?
> 

It is not new behavior. systemctl did it for as long as I remember.