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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

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: 22942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22942: emacs 25.0.90.1; "Retype" is missing from comint-password-prompt-regexp
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:11:53 +0100


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".

Thanks opening,

Andreas
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