Interactive password prompt

[rkrug]

Hi

two comments concerning the upgrade of cask:

1. Some casks require a password. at the moment, when I do

mpm -m cask upgrade

I only get the password prompt and no information which cask needs the password. This is a little bit unnerving and insecure. Would it be possible to print, even in the standard verbosity level, the cask which is processed, to be able to see which one needs a password?

2. I might be wrong, but I have the impression that the password prompt stalls the upgrade via bitbar - could this be fixed by e.g. skipping the ones which require a password or popping up a password dialog?

In general - a little bit more verbosity while upgrading from the command line would be quite useful.

[kdeldycke]

That one might be hard to tackle, unless you know of a magic multi-platform Python module to pop-up a dialog to ask for a password. 😟 And this has to be generic enough to work both in GUI and console... 😩

[kdeldycke]

What I found so far:

• http://invisible-island.net/dialog/
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dialog
• http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/
• http://xdialog.free.fr/
• http://hightek.org/projects/dialog/
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psidialogs
• https://pymotw.com/2/EasyDialogs/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21866537/what-could-cause-an-open-file-dialog-window-in-tkinter-python-to-be-really-slow#25734916

[kdeldycke]

BTW, there's already a hack for gem to support sudo but it is extremely brittle. See: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/blob/v2.4.0/meta_package_manager/managers/gem.py#L154-L161

[kdeldycke]

There is a way to gracefully do this on Linux when sudo is called:

• https://docs.python.org/3/library/getpass.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47881339/how-to-make-python-script-to-give-sudo-prompt-my-password

[kdeldycke]

Another piece of code to study:

• https://github.com/amoffat/sh/blob/40f1e4d3c3f007bac068423c6b1964788a8a1e53/sh.py#L3391-L3414
• http://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/sudo.html