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<H1>SYSTEMD-TTY-ASK-PASSWORD-AGENT</H1>
Section: systemd-tty-ask-password-agent (1)<BR>Updated: <BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
systemd-tty-ask-password-agent - List or process pending systemd password requests
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
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<B>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</B> [OPTIONS...] [VARIABLE=VALUE...]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
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<B>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</B>
<DD>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.
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<B>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</B>
implements the
m[blue]<B>Password Agents Specification</B>m[]<FONT SIZE="-2">[1]</FONT>, and is one of many possible response agents which answer to queries formulated with
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+systemd-ask-password">systemd-ask-password</A></B>(1).
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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The following options are understood:
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<B>--list</B>
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Lists all currently pending system password requests.
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<B>--query</B>
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Process all currently pending system password requests by querying the user on the calling TTY.
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<B>--watch</B>
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Continuously process password requests.
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<B>--wall</B>
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Forward password requests to
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+wall">wall</A></B>(1)
instead of querying the user on the calling TTY.
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<B>--plymouth</B>
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Ask question with
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+plymouth">plymouth</A></B>(8)
instead of querying the user on the calling TTY.
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<B>--console</B>
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Ask question on
/dev/console
instead of querying the user on the calling TTY.
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<B>-h</B>, <B>--help</B>
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Print a short help text and exit.
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<B>--version</B>
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Print a short version string and exit.
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<H2>EXIT STATUS</H2>
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On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
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<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+systemd">systemd</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+systemctl">systemctl</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+systemd-ask-password-console.service">systemd-ask-password-console.service</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+wall">wall</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+plymouth">plymouth</A></B>(8)
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<H2>NOTES</H2>
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<DT id="10"> 1.<DD>
Password Agents Specification
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<A HREF="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents">https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents</A>
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<DT id="12"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="13"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="14"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="15"><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="16"><A HREF="#lbAF">EXIT STATUS</A><DD>
<DT id="17"><A HREF="#lbAG">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="18"><A HREF="#lbAH">NOTES</A><DD>
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