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

[James Muir (jamesmui)]

>> Any comment on my other question:  is systemd-tty-ask-password an optional component?
>
> It is optional. You can skip it with --no-ask-password. If you did not,
> it is assumed you wanted password agent and the warning is correct. It
> is just a message, systemctl does not fail if it could not launch
> password agent. So, even from this angle it is optional. Maybe you mean
> "warning should be optional"?

Thanks for your reply.

I want to know if it makes sense for the executable /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent to be absent.

OpenEmbedded puts systemd-tty-ask-password-agent in a separate install-package (systemd-extra-utils).

If you install the main systemd package, but not systemd-extra-utils, then /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent won’t exist on your system; but there is still a reference to /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent inside libsystemd-shared-255.so.

I wonder if systemd-tty-ask-password-agent should be moved into the main systemd package.

-James M


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