On Wed, 16.03.11 13:21, Jan Engelhardt (jeng...@medozas.de) wrote: > > > On Wednesday 2011-03-16 04:30, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > >After X is up all password prompts do give input feedback > > The presence of X does not change behavior of console programs. > > Well, as I mentioned earlier, certain implementations use a > three-star-per-character so that there is at least some feedback. How > about using that?
I am not sure I follow here, if we always show 3 asterisks then it should be much easier to get an idea how long your password is. What some programs do is randomly pick between 1 and 3 asterisks for each char. That probably does make some sense, though might be quite confusing to the user, dunno? > Or, something crazy that just came to my mind is using one (or > more) U+2501 per input character. Provided you have a proper > font, this will produce a continuous line which is harder to > estimate than chars having blank pixels between them. Well, but we cannot rely that the terminal used is unicode-capable. Note that this prompt might be shown on serial terminals with weirdo Windows-based software on the other side, which almost definitely cannot to UTF-8. The only continuous line in 7 bit ascii we could draw is with underscores, but that might be irritating, too? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
