Bug#60444: password typeing on initial user creation should show "*" or "."

To: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>, 60444@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#60444: password typeing on initial user creation should show "*" or "."
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Date: 16 Mar 2000 08:54:09 -0600
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Reply-to: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, 60444@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: Florian Lohoff's message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:20:25 +0100"
References: <[🔎] 20000315142025.L1230@paradigm.rfc822.org>

Hi,
>>"Florian" == Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> writes:

 Florian> Entering a password for the user created on initial bootup
 Florian> should show "*" or "." instead of nothing - Newbies could think
 Florian> the keyboard doesnt work.

        The solution should be documenting this somewhere rather than
 producing visible output -- the current behaviour is deemed to be
 more secure, since even someone standing at ones shoulder shall not
 know the length of the password.

        manoj
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