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

[James Muir (jamesmui)]

>>> 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.
>
> Okay.  But the display of the warning is new behaviour.
>
> Was the warning just not visible or not generated before?
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> Should systemd-tty-ask-password not be considered an optional component?
Answering my own question:  yes, the warning / failure message was not visible until recently (v255.10).
The following commit adds a log statement to exec-util,c and that is why it has appeared:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/76fe6ebee8
Any comment on my other question:  is systemd-tty-ask-password an optional component?
-James M
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