Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 19:51, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-09-25T23:03:18Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I realized after I asked the question that this is probably a Kernel > > issue. This is a P4 1.7 -- I shouldn't be able to outtype it. > > > > Probably need low-latency kernel. > > I

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-25T23:03:18Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I realized after I asked the question that this is probably a Kernel > issue. This is a P4 1.7 -- I shouldn't be able to outtype it. > > Probably need low-latency kernel. I don't follow. What makes you think that this has anything to do w

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread tb . nospam
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:43:01PM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:39:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, > > a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the > > syste

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030925 14:38]: > Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, > a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the > system is only under moderate load and I'm not "expecting" it to be > slow. It happens i

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:39:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, > a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the > system is only under moderate load and I'm not "expecting" it to be > slow.

SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread tb . nospam
Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the system is only under moderate load and I'm not "expecting" it to be slow. It happens in X with gnome-terminal and also sometimes just at the console.