centos man page for systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

SYSTEMD-TTY-ASK-PASSWORD-AGENT(1)			  systemd-tty-ask-password-agent			 SYSTEMD-TTY-ASK-PASSWORD-AGENT(1)

NAME
       systemd-tty-ask-password-agent - List or process pending systemd password requests

SYNOPSIS
       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[1].

OPTIONS
       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
	   Prints a short help text and exits.

       --version
	   Prints a short version string and exits.

       --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)

NOTES
	1. Password Agents Specification
	   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents

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