Hello! I am using LUKS on Debian Stretch with an encrypted /home and swap partitions.
When the system boots `cryptsetup` asks password to decrypt swap. That password doesn't get echoed on terminal at all. Totally expected behavior. [0] But then `systemd-ask-password` asks password to decrypt /home and that password gets echoed on terminal as star(*) chars by default. Turns out one needs to press TAB or BACKSPACE to turn off the echo. [1] Is this an intended behavior or am I missing something? If this is indeed an intended behavior then I would like to propose that the default behavior of `systemd-ask-password` should be to echo nothing at all and echo (if at all) stars(*) when the user presses a special key (e.g TAB or BACKSPACE) to test whether their input works or not. There are primarily 2 reasons behind this proposal: 1. Security by obscurity (hiding the length of pass-phrase by default) 2. Consistency (with sudo, cryptsetup, login etc.) Thank you. [0] https://imgur.com/bC4AF6H [1] https://imgur.com/u4nw6Lb Regards, Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
