Subject: bug#45413: Password exposure on SSH login

From: Daniel Martín <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:45:16 +0100

"Pedro J. V. Mendes" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army
knife of text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> OK, (only) after starting with emacs -Q does the password prompt (and
> the focus) appear at the mini-buffer.
>

Yes, that is expected.  The minibuffer prompt should hide your password
with asterisks as you type it.

I think this may not be a bug in Emacs, but a problem somewhere in your
Emacs configuration.  Comment out parts of your .emacs until you find
the culprit.