On Fri, 18.03.11 00:18, Jan Engelhardt (jeng...@medozas.de) wrote: > Meanwhile, I have two new suggestions.
I have one too (or actually Kay came up with it), and I think you are going to like it: Start with showing input feedback as we currently do. If the user then presses TAB the stars disappear, and instead we show "(no echo)" or so. Then, the user can proceed with typing his password without asterisks. This should be strictly one way however: you can enter the no-echo mode but not leave it anymore. For two reasons: so that people cannot take over your machine and make visible what you explicitly wanted to hide: the length of your password. And secondly, there might be weird folks with Tabs in their passphrases (though they are probably going through hell if they do), and by pressing TAB twice they thus have a way to enter a single TAB. If you prep a patch for this logic I'd merge it right-away and I think both of us should be perfectly happy, right? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
