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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:11:43PM +0100, Madhou wrote: > When logging in a shell, one will type his username, 'return' and then his > password... It sounds like you are describing behaviour of getty, not the shell. That's because the tty device is set to echo typed characters at the 'login:' prompt. After getty receives your username either it or /bin/login will turn off the echo flag and prompt for your password. If it's a problem for you, patch getty to turn off echo (and cooked mode) before the 'login:' prompt and perform all keyboard input processing and echoing in the program. > But just after 'return' the kernel is launched into thinking for long enough > to the point that users who do everything fast including logging in a shell > let the shell display the first letters of their passwords. > This problem tends to be critical when the user makes a demonstration to a > bunch of people thanks to an overhead projector. I don't think the kernel can be blamed for this behaviour, particularly when your password is 'qwerty'. When demonstrating, setup a demo username so you don't have to type your own password in front of a roomful of people. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 | ||||||||||||
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