From: Sebastian Wiesner <swiesner@lunaryorn.com>
To: 17839@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17839: 24.4.50; read-passwd echoes password input in non-interactive sessions
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:51:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y4wnu42e.fsf@lunaryorn.com> (raw)
In a non-interactive session, i.e. "emacs -Q --batch …", `read-passwd'
currently echoes the password input on the TTY.
I would expect `read-passwd' to suppress input echo while reading a
password, like suo, sudo, SSH, GPG and similar programs do.
In my opinion, the current behaviour is harmful, because from their
experience with these programs user will likely expect that input
following a "Password: " prompt is hidden, and thus may accidentally
expose their password, being unaware that Emacs behaves differently.
next reply other threads:[~2014-06-23 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 13:51 Sebastian Wiesner [this message]
2014-06-23 15:46 ` bug#17839: 24.4.50; read-passwd echoes password input in non-interactive sessions Andreas Schwab
2014-06-23 16:52 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-06-24 18:41 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-24 22:55 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-06-25 7:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-25 8:01 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-25 8:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-25 9:20 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-25 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-25 10:03 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-25 9:52 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-06-25 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-26 19:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 14:36 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-10 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-11 9:15 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 9:41 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 9:58 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 11:32 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 12:43 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 14:57 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-05 20:25 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-06 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 11:12 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-07 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 13:12 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-07 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 16:08 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-07 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 10:15 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-10 21:46 ` Sebastian Wiesner
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