Am 20.12.2017 um 10:41 schrieb root kea: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > >> I think this is intentional behaviour, so you'll easily spot that your >> input system works > > The current implementation is that the password gets echoed to > terminal as star(*) characters by default and one needs to press TAB > or BACKSPACE key to turn off the echo. > > Now it's quite possible that there are people who want to make sure > that their input works while entering password. For them a key should > be configured (e.g. TAB or BACKSPACE) to echo the stars(*). By default > password shouldn't be echoed at all. Something like when most of the > modern GUIs make you click on button to reveal the password. By > default they print stars/dots.[0] (This is an analogy) > > There are mainly 2 reasons behind this proposal: > 1. Security by obscurity (hiding the length of pass-phrase) > 2. consistency
Since I don't really agree with your reasoning, I'll leave it up to you to raise this issue upstream at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues if you want to see this behaviour changed. We won't ship a Debian specific patch and deviate from upstream behaviour in that regard.
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