Am 19.12.2017 um 19:33 schrieb Avinash Sonawane: > Package: systemd > Version: 232-25+deb9u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have encrypted swap and /home. When the system starts it asks password to > decrypt swap. The password doesn't get echoed at all. Totally expected > behaviour. > > But then it loads the kernel and systemd takes over. And > `systemd-ask-password` > (I think as plymouth is not installed) asks the password to decrypt /home. And > this time password gets echoed to screen as star(*) characters. > > Here is the screenshot [0]. > > I expected no echo on terminal at all. Echoing stars on screen is not at all > consistent behaviour with the traditional *Nix password handling. > > I hope you will look into the issue and will take the necessary steps to > address it. >
I think this is intentional behaviour, so you'll easily spot that your input system works. Basically any graphical user interface works like this these days. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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