Display feedback while typing password in terminal.

[Dazed_75]

"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 at 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 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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