From a51168481f2e3bcda2c18c2f2edae311caee495b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 10:42:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ask-password: default to a different prompt than "Password:"
 if the echo is on

---
 src/ask-password/ask-password.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ask-password/ask-password.c b/src/ask-password/ask-password.c
index fb4b7be4fcb..db6f2f59c0a 100644
--- a/src/ask-password/ask-password.c
+++ b/src/ask-password/ask-password.c
@@ -200,6 +200,14 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 arg_message = strv_join(argv + optind, " ");
                 if (!arg_message)
                         return log_oom();
+        } else if (FLAGS_SET(arg_flags, ASK_PASSWORD_ECHO)) {
+                /* By default ask_password_auto() will query with the string "Password: ", which is not right
+                 * when full echo is on, since then it's unlikely a password. Let's hence default to a less
+                 * confusing string in that case. */
+
+                arg_message = strdup("Input:");
+                if (!arg_message)
+                        return log_oom();
         }
 
         return 1;
-- 
2.47.3