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authorDavid Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>2014-10-03 15:53:45 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-10-05 15:29:41 -0400
commit64845bdc829d6a6179d0762b7e97ef23828562a3 (patch)
tree639cc68e573d665a61a45836d1793ac2eb96932c /man/systemd-ask-password.xml
parent75a0da952f603006d6b3535ecaf8ebe2bded30e7 (diff)
ask-password: Add --echo to enable echoing the user input
Programs such as OpenVPN may use ask-password for not only retrieving passwords, but also usernames. Masking usernames with * seems just silly. v2 - Don't mess with termios flags, instead print the input instead of an asterix. Resolves issues with backspace and TAB input. v3 - Renamed 'do_echo' variables and argument to 'echo'. Also modified the ask_password_{tty,agent,auto} API instead of additional wrapper functions. [zj: undo changes to ask_password_auto, since no callers were using the new argument.]
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diff --git a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
index ce0ac3d1a2..448df62100 100644
--- a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
@@ -127,6 +127,17 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--echo</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Echo the user input
+ instead of masking it. This is useful
+ when using
+ <filename>systemd-ask-password</filename>
+ to query for usernames.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-tty</option></term>
<listitem><para>Never ask for password