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From: Joachim Pense <joachim.pense@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: password shows on emacs as a shell
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:20:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aq8uk0$4sr$01$5@news.t-online.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: be47c593.0211050833.20ae67cf@posting.google.com

kirpi@tiscali.it (Luigi)
(news:be47c593.0211050833.20ae67cf@posting.google.com): 

> I run Linux SuSE 8.0 and try Emacs as a unix shell.
> The bad thing is that as "su -", emacs shows the password while I type
> it. Not so nice.
> What do you think, please?
> Luigi

If you want to enter a password, type "M-X send-invisible". Then you are 
prompted for the text, enter it in hidden format, and it is not displayed.

Joachim

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-05 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-05 16:33 password shows on emacs as a shell Luigi
2002-11-05 16:46 ` Peter Weiss, Sun Microsystems, Germany
2002-11-07 22:09   ` Luigi
2002-11-07 23:24     ` those who know me have no need of my name
2002-11-08 19:29       ` Luigi
2002-11-08 17:23     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-11 11:55       ` Luigi
2002-11-11 20:01       ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-11-11 20:38         ` Jesper Harder
2002-11-12  8:15           ` Eric Marsden
2002-11-12 18:31             ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-11-05 17:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-11 21:06   ` Luigi
2002-11-11 21:15   ` Luigi
2002-11-05 17:20 ` Joachim Pense [this message]

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