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Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:27:38 +0300 |
> 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?
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- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/18
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/06/18
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/06/18
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Manuel Giraud, 2022/06/20
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/20
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Manuel Giraud, 2022/06/20
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/20
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/25
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords, Stefan Monnier, 2022/06/15
- Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords,
Eli Zaretskii <=