[Bug 194472] Re: Entering password in Terminal gives no visual feedback

[Mystica555]

Hope y'all are happy, ubuntu has changed default sudo implementation to
sudo-rs.

sudo-rs has, at least at time of writing, "fixed" this bug upstream by
shipping code that enables pwfeedback by default, not caring about 45
years of sudo historical precedence, or #62's security concerns, and
Ubuntu have decided to change sudo implementations without the
reciprocal "!pwfeedback" being shipped in sudoers.

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Title:
  Entering password in Terminal gives no visual feedback

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Won't Fix
Status in Ubuntu Server papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in sudo:
  Fix Released
Status in sudo package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: sudo

  Until a user entered his first "sudo" command he sees these lines
  every time he opens a terminal

  --
  To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
  See "man sudo_root" for details.

  foo at bar:~$
  ---

  After the first sudo command ~/.sudo_as_admin_successful is created
  and terminal starts with a simple prompt.

  Now my point: I'm reading a lot of forum postings and every other day
  someone with little experience in linux and shell commands asks the
  question "I'm trying to execute sudo $command, but when i try to enter
  my password nothing happens, i can't see what i'm typing and i also
  don't see asteriks like ***, so is my keyboard dead?".

  So please could you add a little sentence, that you can't see asteriks
  or your password while entering your sudo password. This would reduce
  the confusion a little bit (if people would read that note ;)

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  Ex of users getting confused:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sound-juicer/+question/2046
  http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9546129

  Forums admin posting a list of user-stories:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=214393
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9564011&postcount=109

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