Bug#884788: systemd-ask-password echos password as stars (*) while decrypting LUKS partition

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.12.2017 um 19:33 schrieb Avinash Sonawane:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-25+deb9u1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I have encrypted swap and /home. When the system starts it asks password to
> decrypt swap. The password doesn't get echoed at all. Totally expected
> behaviour.
> 
> But then it loads the kernel and systemd takes over. And `systemd-ask-password`
> (I think as plymouth is not installed) asks the password to decrypt /home. And
> this time password gets echoed to screen as star(*) characters.
> 
> Here is the screenshot [0].
> 
> I expected no echo on terminal at all. Echoing stars on screen is not at all
> consistent behaviour with the traditional *Nix password handling.
> 
> I hope you will look into the issue and will take the necessary steps to
> address it.
> 

I think this is intentional behaviour, so you'll easily spot that your
input system works. Basically any graphical user interface works like
this these days.


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