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Roman Shaposhnik commented on BIGTOP-1353: ------------------------------------------ I vaguely remember dealing with the same issue and finding that su vs. sudo did the trick. Try to experiment with that. > Accumulo's password obfuscation is broken by su in init scripts > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: BIGTOP-1353 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1353 > Project: Bigtop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Init scripts > Reporter: Sean Mackrory > Assignee: Sean Mackrory > Priority: Critical > > When initializing an Accumulo cluster with 'service accumulo-master init', it > will hide the entry of the initial root password with asterisks. However, > something about the use of 'su' to run this script as the correct user is > preventing that from working properly. It will show the password in > plaintext, and after the user hits enter a newline is printed and the correct > number of asterisks is entered after the fact. Using sudo (or nothing at all) > prevents this, but relying on that is undesirable. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)