Display feedback while typing password in terminal.

[Brian Cluff]

I was just reading though the source for passwd and it looks like there 
isn't a way to do it without rewriting parts of passwd to not use the 
getpass function, or rewriting getpass itself if you want everything to 
output the stars.

         The  getpass()  function  opens  /dev/tty (the controlling
	terminal of the process), outputs the string prompt, turns off
	echoing, reads one line (the "password"), restores the terminal
	state and closes /dev/tty again.

Brian Cluff

On 09/06/2013 08:13 AM, Shawn Badger wrote:
> Thanks Larry!!
> I have found several articles on how to do form within sudo, but nothing
> on how to get passwd or bash to do it so far.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com
> <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Oops!  I misread your question.  That was for the part you already know.
>
>
>     On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         http://www.maketecheasier.com/quick-tips/show-password-asterisks-in-terminal
>
>         worked for me :)
>
>
>         On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Shawn Badger <shawn at badger.pro
>         <mailto:shawn at badger.pro>> wrote:
>
>             I have how to display password feed back while using sudo,
>             but Google has failed me on how to display feedback while
>             running passwd in a terminal session.  Does anyone know if
>             the pwfeedback environment setting works outside of sudoers
>             file or an equivalent setting for the passwd command?
>
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