systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
systemd-tty-ask-password-agent 1
systemd-tty-ask-password-agent List or process pending systemd password requests
`systemd-tty-ask-password-agent` OPTIONS VARIABLE=VALUE

## Description

`systemd-tty-ask-password-agent` is a password agent that handles password requests of the system, for example for hard disk encryption passwords or SSL certificate passwords that need to be queried at boot-time or during runtime.

`systemd-tty-ask-password-agent` implements the Password Agents Specification, and is one of many possible response agents which answer to queries formulated with systemd-ask-password 1.

## Options

The following options are understood:

`--list`

  Lists all currently pending system password requests.

`--query`

  Process all currently pending system password requests by querying the user on the calling TTY.

`--watch`

  Continuously process password requests.

`--wall`

  Forward password requests to wall 1 instead of querying the user on the calling TTY.

`--plymouth`

  Ask question with plymouth 8 instead of querying the user on the calling TTY.

`--console`

  Ask question on `/dev/console` instead of querying the user on the calling TTY.

## Exit status

On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

## See Also

systemd 1, systemctl 1, systemd-ask-password-console.service 8, wall 1, plymouth 8