From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Clear Text Passwords Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:18:07 -0600 Message-ID: <42F231AF.3090408@yahoo.com> References: <20050804142342.C69101D3B0@p3fed1.frb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123171596 17047 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2005 16:06:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:06:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Robert.Setterlund@bos.frb.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 18:06:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0iCH-0007Ph-6S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:03:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0iF5-0007na-Ee for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0iAt-0006NU-8T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0iAr-0006Mv-Gb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0iAV-0005pj-Cy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E0htw-0004Cq-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E0hfp-0002Bm-0a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:30:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050804142342.C69101D3B0@p3fed1.frb.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:12650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:12650 Robert Setterlund wrote: > 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? (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions 'comint-watch-for-password-prompt) If you put that in default.el or site-start.el, all the users will benefit. -- Kevin Rodgers