1. Be clear about which password is being requested
2. Remove extraneous whitespace between the prompt and the cursor
3. Move the twiddle to where the prompt is, instead of two characters to the right
4. Fix erasing the 'incorrect password' message when retrying; previously it was erased partially
5. Remove the unneeded exclamation mark
Reviewed by: kevans
Approved by: re (gjb)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17236
r330282 registered loader.printc as printc, so use it instead. This makes
sense for a couple reasons, the major point being that it reads a little bit
easier and pairs nicely with the global 'print'.
Similar cases can not really be made for other loader.* functions as most of
them are either highly specific to our use-case or usually available in
other modules, such as `os`. printc does not have a standard implementation
in the Lua world(*), so we have a little more leeway with it, and it's kind
of a special case of the globally available 'print'.
(*) I've been in the Lua world for all of two weeks, so this could be wrong.
- Add screen.default_x and screen.default_y to determine where
screen.defcursor resets the cursor to.
- Use screen.setcursor in screen.defcursor instead of rewriting the escape
sequence.
- Use screen.default_y when resetting the cursor after writing the new
twiddle character, add a comment verbally describing the position just in
case.
It worked on my test setup, but is clearly non-functional on others.
Further examination of check-password.4th showed that it actually reset the
cursor to 0,25 every time and overwrote the previous password prompt. Do
that, and also clear the "Incorrect Password" text if the correct password
gets entered.
twiddle_pos didn't need to be a module-scope local, since it's going to get
reset with every read anyways- it was left-over from other things.
screen.movecursor with a y=-1 setting was from a test of movecursor,
resulting in the twiddle characters being drawn going up the console and
looking quite funky.
This gives some form of feedback while typing, and matches-(ish*) Forth
behavior. The cursor generally rests two column after the password prompt,
then the twiddle is drawn three columns later and the cursor reset to
resting position after being drawn.
I've removed the note about re-evaluating it for security considerations and
instead set it up as a module-local variable that we can set later depending
on environment or something. It's set to false with no chance of changing at
the moment.
*As close as I can tell from reading check-password.4th, because I don't
have an easy test (or deployed) setup for forth loader to check how close
it is. Please do mention if it's not close enough.
luacheck pointed out an assortment of issues, ranging from non-standard
globals being created as well as unused parameters, variables, and redundant
assignments.
Using '_' as a placeholder for values unused (whether it be parameters
unused or return values unused, assuming multiple return values) feels clean
and gets the point across, so I've adopted it. It also helps flag candidates
for cleanup later in some of the lambdas I've created, giving me an easy way
to re-evaluate later if we're still not using some of these features.
This seems to have been arbitrary; bootlock_password and password don't seem
to have any documented length restrictions, and loader(8) probably shouldn't
care about whatever GELI passphrase length restrictions might exist.
Reported by: Kalle Carlbark <kalle.carlbark+freebsd@kcbark.net>
This was also a convenience convention (for me) that is not very lua-tic.
Drop it.
I've maintained some parentheses where I'd prefer them, for example,
'if x or y or (z and w) then', but these situations are far and few between.
This was previously chosen out of convenience, as we had a mixed style and
needed to be consistent. I started learning Lua on Friday, so I switched
everything over. It is not a very lua-nic convention, though, so drop it.
Excessive parenthesizing around conditionals is next on the chopping block.
We follow pretty closely the following structure of a module:
1. Copyright notice
2. Module requires
3. Module local declarations
4. Module local definitions
5. Module exports
6. return
Re-organize the one-offs (config/drawer) and denote the start of module
exports with a comment.
In the worst case scenario, we have no passwords to prompt for and we end up
just clearing the screen twice before we draw the menu or proceed with boot.
In the best case scenario, we don't try drawing password prompts amidst a
bunch of kernel/module loading.
These are the style points that I'd like to try and maintain in our lua
scripts:
- Parentheses around conditionals
- Trailing semicolons, except on block terminators
- s:method(...) instead of string.method(s, ...) where applicable
There's likely more, but that'll get hammered out as we continue.
Prompt for GELI passphrase when geom_eli_passphrase_prompt has been set to
"YES" in loader.conf(5).
This entailed breaking out the password prompt into its own function that
can be reused between the password compare bits and this prompt that simply
takes the entered password and passes it along in the environment as
kern.geom.eli.passphrase.
I've also added a TODO to re-evaluate later if we want the "password
masking" -- it is currently not functional, so one still can't observe the
length of the password typed at the prompt.
These are the .lua files from from Pedro Souza's 2014 Summer of Code
project. Rui Paulo, Pedro Arthur and Wojciech A. Koszek also
contributed.
Obtained from: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code
Improve the SoC lua menu code to bring it in line with forth
menu functionality
Submitted by: Zakary Nafziger
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Use loader.setenv and loader.unsetenv instead of loader.perform
Convert from include("/boot/foo.lua") to foo = require("foo");
to bring in line with latest lua module conventions.
Enforce a uniform style for the new .lua files:
o hard tab indenation for 8 spaces
o don't have if foo then bar; else bas; end on one line
MFC After: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14295
