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(-)
Instead of the /dev/.run trick we have currently implemented, we decided
to move the early-boot runtime dir to /run.
An existing /var/run directory is bind-mounted to /run. If /var/run is
already a symlink, no action is taken.
An existing /var/lock directory is bind-mounted to /run/lock.
If /var/lock is already a symlink, no action is taken.
To implement the directory vs. symlink logic, we have a:
ConditionPathIsDirectory=
now, which is used in the mount units.
Skipped mount unit in case of symlink:
$ systemctl status var-run.mount
var-run.mount - Runtime Directory
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/var-run.mount)
Active: inactive (dead)
start condition failed at Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:51:41 +0100; 6min ago
Where: /var/run
What: /run
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/var-run.mount
The systemd rpm needs to make sure to add something like:
%pre
mkdir -p -m0755 /run >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
or it needs to be added to filesystem.rpm.
Udev -git already uses /run if that exists, and is writable at bootup.
Otherwise it falls back to the current /dev/.udev.
Dracut and plymouth need to be adopted to switch from /dev/.run to run
too.
Cheers,
Kay
