.... and that's soooo good security-wise Renato Gallo
----- Original Message ----- From: to...@tuxteam.de To: "Rodolfo Medina" <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> Cc: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 2:12:22 PM Subject: Re: How to have password shown? On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:24:54AM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all... > > Is there any a way to have my user-password shown when logging into Debian in > tty console, or also within X system when changing to root? It is for my old > father... it'd be easier for him to see what he's typing. In internet I > found > some procedures to have asterisks shown; would it be possible to have a clear > text as well? Maybe it isn't as I understand... I think /bin/login isn't set up to allow that (at least that's what a cursory reading of its man page tells me). I fear the only way for you would be to modify its source and recompile... Cheers -- tomás
