>> Any comment on my other question: is systemd-tty-ask-password an optional >> component? > > It is optional. You can skip it with --no-ask-password. If you did not, > it is assumed you wanted password agent and the warning is correct. It > is just a message, systemctl does not fail if it could not launch > password agent. So, even from this angle it is optional. Maybe you mean > "warning should be optional"?
Thanks for your reply. I want to know if it makes sense for the executable /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent to be absent. OpenEmbedded puts systemd-tty-ask-password-agent in a separate install-package (systemd-extra-utils). If you install the main systemd package, but not systemd-extra-utils, then /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent won’t exist on your system; but there is still a reference to /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent inside libsystemd-shared-255.so. I wonder if systemd-tty-ask-password-agent should be moved into the main systemd package. -James M
