bug#24231: 25.1.1: sudo displays password

[Andreas Röhler]

reopen 24231


Hallo Michael,


sorry continuing so late.

Checked with eshell, which hides the password, displaying just spots.

From there think it would be worth fixing it at Emacs-shell.


Looks like a solution is in esh-mode.el:

(defun eshell-send-invisible ()
  "Read a string without echoing.


Best,

Andreas


On 17.08.2016 09:42, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
> Hi Andreas,
> > > Should it not be possible to suppress the plain echo in all cases
> > > following "sudo"?
> > > As the QT-shell does IIUC.
> > That's not Emacs' job. As shown by my examples, you might be able to
> > configure the sudo password prompt yourself. A simple
> >
> > (setenv "SUDO_PROMPT" "password: ")
> >
> > in your .emacs would suffice.
> I'm closing the bug, because it is not an Emacs error.
>
> Best regards, Michael.