On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 07:20:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 14:59:18 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > > > The tradition allows for configuring xdm to show stars when the password > > > is typed. > > > > That's right, but it's not the default. My advice was just for the > > case that the OP wasn't "seeing" that things might be working as > > intended. > > Indeed it's not the default. My advice was for those users of xdm who > would like some visual feedback when authenticating. BTW. I looked it up, and the knob for that: set the X resource xlogin.Login.echoPasswd to 'true' for that (CAVEAT: untested!) create (or extend, if already present) the file /etc/X11/Xresources/xdm and add the line Xdm*xlogin.Login.echoPasswd: true Perhaps I come around to testing it tomorrow, then I'll shake out the five bugs yet in there :) Cheers - t
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