Bug 8341 - tl-sso-password and tl-sso-token-passphrase are not user friendly
Summary: tl-sso-password and tl-sso-token-passphrase are not user friendly
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: trunk
Hardware: PC Unknown
: P2 Normal
Target Milestone: LowPrio
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Reported: 2024-04-30 11:39 CEST by Tobias
Modified: 2024-04-30 12:49 CEST (History)
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Description Tobias cendio 2024-04-30 11:39:49 CEST
The script tool tl-sso-password [1] and its sibling tl-sso-token-passphrase [2] are listed as end-user commands in the TAG [3]. However, they are not sufficiently easy to use even with help from the current documentation and the textual feedback is almost nonexistent. For instance, we rely on users being aware of how to check the return code, and some notion of piping.

Moreover, many common commands are seemingly incompatible e.g. 
> tl-sso-password | /usr/bin/gnome-software --password-on-stdin
> Unknown option --password-on-stdin
> /usr/bin/gnome-software --password-prog tl-sso-password
> Unknown option --password-prog
This is further complicated by bug 7754 which documents how some commands exit too quickly.

Perhaps these tools could be wrapped to increase user friendliness and textual feedback.

[1] https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/man/tl-sso-password.1.html
[2] https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/man/tl-sso-token-passphrase.1.html
[3] https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/commands.html

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