From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 14:16:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83bkuqnrwa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87edzz8dzo.fsf@elite.giraud> <834k0v5f7z.fsf@gnu.org> <8735g7vb47.fsf@elite.giraud> <83bkuvtr3q.fsf@gnu.org> <83tu8nrvdb.fsf@gnu.org> <87ilp2z7a4.fsf@elite.giraud> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40521"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Manuel Giraud Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 18 13:20:21 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o2WV2-000AOl-PN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 13:20:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2WV1-0003Ps-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2WRP-00025u-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2WRK-0004gO-Vf; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:16:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=Ml/Qce0rYh/E81jtdl43oyZcHvqI1PnLLxzZcWSC1hg=; b=cLULrjbbc8nXoJFGsygt ORv32sdehQcZhdTlyLRE6h4o5Y8XnPicJAC099hANYZGOfx8F9CuLrPZEQCr16uicQ0NsKeHhjHF3 qgpCkzul+qVxPC4yb894Lqr0BwsF0oq4S+vQ8sPgXhSELUuVU9GQAvHVlic2WJ/nPrLFm9iaeeDxG I104itmx9wyZQlqo71sPkBEIECXF0JDCw+NyJEcJE31nLFZZAvGKLdZAFK9ijsmCpKz0uiLGD3sue 0XNxOj7XxrdJHjtrivJeY1EyDok/D76OWNCq71ZqVworLgj8eXREkWAdnr3GYKcXzp/cjIpw9BsDa 3eHbKrkt5brocA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2350 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2WRK-00087e-1W; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:16:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ilp2z7a4.fsf@elite.giraud> (message from Manuel Giraud on Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:59:31 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:291352 Archived-At: > From: Manuel Giraud > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:59:31 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > The next question is: do we want to enable this by default and in a > > way that users cannot have the previous behavior back? > > I think that having this as a default is a good thing™ (no more clear > password in lossage). About being able to revert this behaviour, I know > I won't use it but maybe it has some use case with the dribble file: do > people use the dribble file as some automation tool for example? > > > In any case, this needs a NEWS entry, I think. > > Ok, I'd one to this patch when we have decide the default and if it > needs a user option. Sounds like having this on by default is what people want. But we need a knob to revert to the previous behavior, and we need a NEWS entry. Could you please prepare an updated patch with those two additions? Thanks.