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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