On 2008-09-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all who opposed the suggestion to send one block of data > when the <Enter> key is pressed: my suggestion strictly referred > to the login procedure, not to the later data communication. I did > not mention this because I thought it was clear from the context > of the original poster who > has expressively mentioned "passwords". You may want to reconsider the > suggestion in this light.
The initial password is sent as a block (of course that simple case was taken care of). The problem OP mentions relates to passwords typed within the session e.g. su, sudo, ssh to another host, ...