GNU bug report logs - #40051
26.3; comint-password-prompt-regexp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lutz Weber <lutweb <at> tutanota.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lutz Weber <lutweb <at> tutanota.com>
Cc: 40051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40051: 26.3; comint-password-prompt-regexp
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 20:44:45 -0400

Lutz Weber <lutweb <at> tutanota.com> writes:

> In Emacs 26.3 in shell-mode with OpenBSD 6.6 with the doas command I am
> being asked for a password.  The password entered is not hidden.
>
> The workaround is to run this:
> (require 'comint)
> (setq comint-password-prompt-regexp
>       (concat comint-password-prompt-regexp
>               "\\|^.*doas.*password:\\s *\\'"))
>
> This might be added to the defaults.  Thank you.

Could you show what the prompt you receive looks like?
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