On Monday 05 October 2020 03:04:41 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > 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.
Thanks Gregg. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
