Display feedback while typing password in terminal.

[Shawn Badger]

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 at 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 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<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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