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| author | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2011-03-27 23:52:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2011-03-28 23:13:59 +0200 |
| commit | d167623084f20d6286c8385de15c8ca0e2fc551d (patch) | |
| tree | 48ec68cb0561007cc1382f48833f330a21ca42d8 /src | |
| parent | 3731f1eaa8f9df60db469b665246a02d5e31d92b (diff) | |
crypto: to show stars or not to show them
On Friday 2011-03-18 01:41, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>On Fri, 18.03.11 00:18, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh@medozas.de) wrote:
>
>> Meanwhile, I have two new suggestions.
>
>I have one too (or actually Kay came up with it), and I think you are
>going to like it:
>
>Start with showing input feedback as we currently do. If the user then
>presses TAB the stars disappear, and instead we show "(no echo)" or
>so. Then, the user can proceed with typing his password without
>asterisks.
>[...]
Incorporating Graham's suggestion to use BKSP instead:
The following changes since commit 65c9e467528daa438167853cc91d37bfcb875836:
tainted: don't check if /usr is a mount point, only if it's not already mounted at startup (2011-03-24 22:32:21 +0100)
are available in the git repository at:
git://dev.medozas.de/systemd master
Jan Engelhardt (1):
ask-password: provide a way to activate a silent prompt
src/ask-password-api.c | 11 +++++++----
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/ask-password-api.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/ask-password-api.c b/src/ask-password-api.c index 5d17d4cd52..022f1cae8c 100644 --- a/src/ask-password-api.c +++ b/src/ask-password-api.c @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ***/ - +#include <stdbool.h> #include <termios.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/poll.h> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ int ask_password_tty( int r, ttyfd = -1, notify = -1; struct pollfd pollfd[2]; bool reset_tty = false; + bool silent_mode = false; enum { POLL_TTY, POLL_INOTIFY @@ -156,7 +157,6 @@ int ask_password_tty( if (c == '\n') break; else if (c == 21) { - while (p > 0) { p--; @@ -165,7 +165,10 @@ int ask_password_tty( } } else if (c == '\b' || c == 127) { - if (p > 0) { + if (p == 0 && !silent_mode) { + silent_mode = true; + loop_write(ttyfd, "(no echo) ", 10, false); + } else if (p > 0) { p--; if (ttyfd >= 0) @@ -174,7 +177,7 @@ int ask_password_tty( } else { passphrase[p++] = c; - if (ttyfd >= 0) + if (!silent_mode && ttyfd >= 0) loop_write(ttyfd, "*", 1, false); } } |