Comment 20 for bug 194472
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| Philipp Gassmann (phiphi.g) wrote Re: Please enhance the sudo explanation message | #20 |
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> David Siegel This is definitely not a paper cut, as average users will never open a terminal, and therefore never use sudo.
That's where I don't agree. In Forum posts and Support sites etc, you find a lot of command-line commands, that you're advised to execute to install a certain package or just to execute something and post the output.
No visual feedback is just confusing.
I just don't see why its better to have no visual feedback.
Also when entering the pw when you login to a shell is not visible (not only sudo), and this gave me some trouble recently:
I had a problem with the graphic card driver and was in Textmode. Because of a problem with the driver or whatever, not every keystroke was accepted. I had to log in in text mode. for the username, I saw the characters, so i could retype a char if the keystroke wasn't accepted, but when entering the pw i had a real problem.
So, its not only useful for newbies