On Mi, 14.11.18 11:38, Sietse van Zanen (sie...@wizdom.nu) wrote: > According to man: > > --keyname= > Configure a kernel keyring key name to use as cache for the > password. If set, then the tool will try to push any collected passwords into > the > kernel keyring of the root user > > > Why only for user root and not the user running > systemd-ask-password?
The whole "systemd-ask-password" concept was created with HDD passwords in mind, i.e. system stuff. We could of course extend the logic to also support unprivileged user stuff, and this has been requested before, but so far nobody sent a patch updating things for this purpose. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
