Comment 35 for bug 194472

hmm... interestingly enough, I remember something similar to this happening.
What was it? Oh yes, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Its been around for who knows how
long, yet it got disable recently in the default installation. However,
there is a "dontzap" program you can run once to re-enable that feature. I
suggest a similar solution to this problem, as it is a rather similar
solution. Find their precedents for this action, and you will find logic
that should be somewhat applicable to this case.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Arvind S Raj <email address hidden>wrote:

> Well then what could be a possible solution? Not many Ubuntu users will
> appreciate the fact that terminal will give a feedback such as stars (as
> many stated here) and not many new users will remember unless reminded
> about this just like what Blattlaus said in comment #16. Perhaps a timed
> reminder in interval of a few days or something?
>
> --
> Entering password in Terminal gives no visual feedback
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194472
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> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Confirmed
> Status in sudo: Fix Released
> Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: sudo
>
> Until a user entered his first "sudo" command he sees these lines every
> time he opens a terminal
>
> --
> To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
> See "man sudo_root" for details.
>
> foo@bar:~$
> ---
>
> After the first sudo command ~/.sudo_as_admin_successful is created and
> terminal starts with a simple prompt.
>
> Now my point: I'm reading a lot of forum postings and every other day
> someone with little experience in linux and shell commands asks the question
> "I'm trying to execute sudo $command, but when i try to enter my password
> nothing happens, i can't see what i'm typing and i also don't see asteriks
> like ***, so is my keyboard dead?".
>
> So please could you add a little sentence, that you can't see asteriks or
> your password while entering your sudo password. This would reduce the
> confusion a little bit (if people would read that note ;)
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Sincerely,
   Josh