09-01-2017
The UNIX login / password system is called PAM, or shadow (part of PAM). Open source PAM actually used to have this feature (GETPASS_ASTERISK) but it was removed for security reasons sometime 2006-ish. It prevents people from guessing your password's length - same reason web browsers show the wrong number of asterisks on autofill.
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LIBSKK(1) General Commands Manual LIBSKK(1)
NAME
skk - program that emulates Japanese SKK input method
SYNOPSIS
skk [options]
DESCRIPTION
skk is a tool that reads key sequences from the standard input and converts them to Japanese text according to a Japanese input method
called SKK (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program).
More information about the SKK input method itself can be found at: http://openlab.jp/skk/
OPTIONS
The skk command follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-f, --file-dict=FILE
Specify path to a file dictionary.
-u, --user-dict=FILE
Specify path to a user dictionary.
-s, --skkserv=HOST:PORT
Specify host and port running skkserv.
-r, --rule=RULE
Specify typing rule.
-l, --list-rules
List typing rules.
EXAMPLE
echo "A i SPC" | skk
Converts a capital letter "A" followed by lowercase letter "i" and a space.
echo "K a p a SPC K a SPC" | skk
Converts a capital letter "K" followed by lowercase letters "a", "p", "a", and a space. Then converts a capital letter "K" followed
by "a" and a space.
echo "r k" | skk -r tutcode
Converts two lowercase letters "r" and "k" with TUT-Code typing rule.
echo "a (usleep 50000) b (usleep 200000)" | skk -r nicola
Converts two lowercase letters "a" and "b" typed with a 50000 micro seconds interval, and wait 200000 micro seconds, with NICOLA
typing rule.
AUTHOR
libskk was written by Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>.
5 Jan 2012 LIBSKK(1)