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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: manuel@ledu-giraud.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:27:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335g6rr91.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy1xyyuyu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:27:51 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: manuel@ledu-giraud.fr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:27:51 -0400
> 
> > and in a way that users cannot have the previous behavior back?
> 
> I'd think being able to redefine `read-password` is sufficient, because
> it should really be extremely uncommon to need your password to appear
> in lossage and/or a dribble file.

Dribble file is a debug facility, and quite an important one at that.
Lossage is also a troubleshooting facility, at least in some of its
uses.

So asking that people redefine functions for that is too harsh,
IMNSHO.  What's the harm from having a variable that people could flip
if they need it?



      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-15 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-08 13:46 [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords Manuel Giraud
2022-06-08 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 13:26   ` Manuel Giraud
2022-06-14  9:38   ` Manuel Giraud
2022-06-14 11:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-14 12:34       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-14 17:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-15  7:59           ` Manuel Giraud
2022-06-18 11:16             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-18 11:29               ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-06-18 11:33                 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-06-20  9:58                   ` Manuel Giraud
2022-06-20 11:28                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-20 15:28                       ` Manuel Giraud
2022-06-20 15:52                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-25  9:35                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-15 12:27           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-15 13:27             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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