I am the administrator of a Sun Solaris 8.0 and 9.0 server.  My users have recently reported a problem.  When they enter the Unix command passwd, to change their system password, and are prompted for their current password, the password is displayed in clear text as they enter it.  They are using Hummingbird Exceed's xstart to log into the Unix server, open a virtual terminal and enter emacs.  I have had them try the same process using telnet from a Windows XP computer and the password is just not displayed.  Is there a way of configuring emacs to not display the password?

Robert D. Setterlund
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
600 Atlantic Ave., Boston, MA, 02106
(617) 973-3374
robert.setterlund@bos.frb.org