Package: emacs22
Version: 22.1+1-2.1
Severity: normal
As a result of http://bugs.debian.org/343268, sudo now uses a
grandiloquent prompt:
[sudo] password for twb:
This is not matched by M-x shell's password regexp, so the user is
suddenly faced with their passwords being echoed to the screen.
Either #343268 should be reverted, or shell.el's regexp should be
extended to work around this madness.
See function comint-watch-for-password-prompt and variable
comint-password-prompt-regexp.
PS: users can use M-x send invisible RET to supply a one-off hidden
password to non-matching regexps; this is what Emacs 21 users had to
do all the time.
PPS: this issue has affected Ubuntu Gutsy for some time. Because
Ubuntu makes it difficult for tty users to report bugs, I do not
report bugs to them, instead waiting until they can be reproduced on
Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages emacs22 depends on:
ii emacs22-bin-common 22.1+1-2.1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.6+20071124-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-5+b1 shared library for GIF images
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-15 Xaw3d widget set
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime
emacs22 recommends no packages.
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