Entering passwords blindly has long been a thing in Linux. Keeps any sort of
screen snooper from being able to see how many characters are in them.
Dunno if there's a way to echo the password to the prompt, in plaintext or as
asterisks.
On Sunday, October 4, 2020, 3:35:24 AM MDT, andy pugh <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 05:31, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> I said nothing is displayed, not even a dot per char.
Still _might_ be deliberate. It means that the hypothetical bad guy
doesn't even know how many characters are in your passcode.
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