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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