From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert.Setterlund@bos.frb.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Clear Text Passwords Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:23:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20050804142342.C69101D3B0@p3fed1.frb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1063947492==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123166963 2264 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2005 14:49:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 16:49:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0h0S-0003nT-QE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:47:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0h3G-0003NT-Is for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0gxG-0008UC-UP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0gxB-0008PZ-2C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0gx6-0008MP-3l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.169.208.132] (helo=p3fed1.frb.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E0gq9-000717-Iq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:36:57 -0400 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:12648 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:12648 This is a multipart message in MIME format. --===============1063947492== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 004F12A685257053_=" This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 004F12A685257053_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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 --=_alternative 004F12A685257053_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
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
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