GNU bug report logs - #22942
emacs 25.0.90.1; "Retype" is missing from comint-password-prompt-regexp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 22942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22942: emacs 25.0.90.1; "Retype" is missing from comint-password-prompt-regexp
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:31:12 +0200

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> On 08.03.2016 14:42, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
>> The pass utility (a password manager which is pretty popular on
>> Debian derivatives) uses two password prompts:
>>
>> Enter password for [account]:
>> Retype password for [account]:
>>
>> Comint only detects the first one as a password prompt, but shows
>> the second one in clear. The fix is to add “Retype” to
>> ‘comint-password-prompt-regexp’. “Type” could be a useful addition
>> as well. It would also be nice to add “Master” to that list, so that
>> “Master password:” is recognized as well.
>>
>> Clément.
>>
>>
>
> At my Xubuntu Emacs displays even first passwort following "sudo".

What does the prompt look like?

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