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Password exposure on SSH login

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From: "Pedro J. V. Mendes" <pedro.mendes <at> ist.utl.pt>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 45413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45413: Password exposure on SSH login
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:45:36 +0000

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In my system, only with―from man emacs―“
            -Q, --quick
                      Similar  to  "-q --no-site-file --no-splash".  
Also, avoid processing X re‐
                      sources.
” is the prompt transferred to the minibuffer.

I'll check and tweak the startup configuration.

Thanks!

On 25/12/20 21:29, João Távora wrote:
> When I studied at that university, shared machines were a thing. I 
> didn't know if they are still, but I'd also try with:
>
> emacs -q # that's lowercase q
>
> If the problem still happens, it's likely in the site-start.el , and 
> not in .emacs
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Init-File.html#Init-File
>
> João
>
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 20:46 Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU 
> Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org 
> <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>> wrote:
>
>     "Pedro J. V. Mendes" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army
>     knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
>     <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>> 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.
>
>
>

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