Comment 21 for bug 194472
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| Arvind S Raj (arvindsraj-deactivatedaccount) wrote Re: Entering password in cmd line gives no visual feedback | #21 |
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I feel some form of feedback is essential when entering the password. About the stars being visible after scroll back, what is wrong? The only thing that's possible would be just to know the length of the password. How will anyone with access to scroll back be able to find out what the password is by just viewing the stars/asterisks?
Also, this feedback should be added not just to the sudo command, but also when you ssh to a server, use scp and perhaps even when the shell login is done. I'm not saying feedback's essential in these cases. But feedback'd be good if it were present for these packages too that's all.
But, for sudo I feel the asterisks are needed because most linux forums that users seek help in depend on the use of CLI i.e. the sudo command rather than the gksudo command. So, it'd great if at least sudo got the asterisks and not any other form of feed back.