"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote on 30/09/14 16:19: > Hmm will this make that password visible to anyone who can watch the > user monitor? > > If that is the case then this is an bad practice since nothing should > ever echo the input for passwords
If you read the context of the email this is for use in situations where you are collecting user input which is NOT a password... Read the thread and then you can disagree with it in a proper context ;) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel