You could always wrap your passwd command with a shell script that just tells them that the password prompt won't echo anything and then immediately runs the real password program.

Brian Cluff

On 09/09/2013 06:49 AM, Shawn Badger 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

<mailto: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>

        <mailto: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>

             <mailto:lthielster@gmail.com
        <mailto:lthielster@gmail.com>>> wrote:

        http://www.maketecheasier.com/__quick-tips/show-password-__asterisks-in-terminal

        <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>

                 <mailto: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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