Comment 61 for bug 194472

Giving my two cents to my previous question... Yes, I think we should change the default /etc/sudoers configuration for Lucid to enable pwfeedback.

I believe we should because:
 a) gksudo, pinentry, kdesu, etc. all have password feedback, and it's one-for-one with the characters typed
 b) the asterisks go away as soon as you hit enter
 c) it is a user friendliness thing, that would make Ubuntu just a little bit nicer for first time users
 d) it's easy to disable if you don't like it

I suggest that we turn this on for new installations of Lucid, but do nothing on upgrades, and instead document how easy it is to turn it on after the fact for an upgrade. Presumably if someone has upgraded to Lucid, they have been using Ubuntu long enough to realize that sudo doesn't provide feedback while typing.

I'd like to get one of the Security team's input on this, and assuming they do not have objections, I'll JFDI.