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Re: need help logging into sarge for i386



On Monday 17 July 2006 23:00, mike williams wrote:
>   when i try to type in the pass,nothing goes into the space,but when i
> type in the name,it works. how can i fix this or take out the whole
> password bit

That's normal.  Visualize your own stars.  Unix login(1) hides your password 
entirely while you type it.

Second paragraph of login's description¹ has this information.

¹ login(1) manual page: 
http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/man/man1/login.1.gz?type=man

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