Re: [Patch] Avoid recording chars when reading passwords

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?