On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 14:59:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 12:14:01 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Just a silly shot in the dark: are you sure it isn't taking keypresses?
> > > Note that xdm doesn't display anything when you type into a password
> > > box. No dots, no stars, anything. Good old tradition...
> > 
> > The tradition allows for configuring xdm to show stars when the password
> > is typed.
> 
> That's right, but it's not the default. My advice was just for the
> case that the OP wasn't "seeing" that things might be working as
> intended.

Indeed it's not the default. My advice was for those users of xdm who
would like some visual feedback when authenticating.

-- 
Brian.

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