(see also https://bugs.debian.org/721828)
One convention i've seen in a few places is that if the first key pressed is a backspace, passphrase entry stops echoingn masking characters (perhaps replaced with a [no echo] field instead of *.
that way, users who don't like having ******* reveal that their password is only 7 characters long can just hit backspace first.
| rP Pinentry | |||
| rPa75786a11666 qt: Disable echoing if backspace is pressed first. | |||
| rP0fb3392f6156 tqt: Disable echoing if backspace is pressed first. | |||
| rP4b06bc600901 gtk: Disable echoing if backspace is pressed first. | |||
| rPfd22facabd78 curses: Disable echoing if backspace is pressed first. | |||
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | gouttegd | T3428 pinentry-curses should be able to avoid showing *s when user enters passphrase | ||
| Resolved | gouttegd | T4659 Release Pinentry-1.1.1 |
The feature has been implemented for the -qt, -tqt, -gtk, and -curses pinentries.
As for the remaining pinentries:
Therefore I am inclined to close this request as Resolved; @dkg, feel free to intervene if you disagree and would like to make the point that the feature should exist in all pinentries.
No disagreement after more than a year, I think it’s fair to say that either everybody is fine with that feature being only present in the -qt, -tqt, -gtk, and -curses pinentries, or that nobody cares. :) Closing now, will be part of the upcoming pinentry-1.1.1.