"Why is it not seeing my typing?" is one of the most frequest questions I get from newbies though.  Makes me wonder if it would break anything for anyone if it were changes upstream to echo each input character with an asterisk.  Any ideas if it would?  Would it make a difference if passwd or getpass() were changed>  Would it be a security issue in any way?


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Shawn Badger <shawn@badger.pro> wrote:
Thanks Brian,  i was hoping it wouldn't be that deep of a change, I think my users will just have to get used to it since I'm not thinking it a big enough problem to change the app. It is always good to be able to have the choice to though :)





On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
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@gmail.com
<mailto:lthielster@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@gmail.com
    <mailto:lthielster@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@badger.pro
        <mailto:shawn@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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