[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#776229: libpam-yubico: Provide visual feedback that button is pressed

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Package: libpam-yubico
Version: 2.17-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

When authentication via yubikey is triggered, the module prompts:

  YubiKey for `username': 

However, there's no visual feedback that characters are being input when
you press the button on the yubikey, so as a user you're unsure if anything
is happening (and this may take half a second or more). Especailly with
the Nano which has no physical feedback when touching it.

It would be nice if the prompt would change when the first character of
input was received.

Thanks,
Thijs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libpam-yubico depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.55
ii  libc6                  2.19-13
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.40-3
ii  libpam-runtime         1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libykclient3           2.13-1
ii  libykpers-1-1          1.16.2-1
ii  libyubikey0            1.12-2

libpam-yubico recommends no packages.

libpam-yubico suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  libpam-yubico/module_args: mode=client try_first_pass id=N key=K