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28.0.60; comint-password-prompt-regexp too restrictive (again)

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 51666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51666: 28.0.60; comint-password-prompt-regexp too
 restrictive (again)
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 11:22:28 +0100

On Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:33:33 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:
>
>> On one of my systems, when using ssh in shell-mode (M-x shell), the
>> password prompt does not appear in the minibuffer but only in the
>> *shell* buffer directly under the ssh invocation, and the password is
>> not hidden when it's entered.  The password prompt has this form:
>>
>> (user <at> host) Password:
>>
>> and comint-password-prompt-regexp fails to match it.  By contrast,
>> eshell-password-prompt-regexp does match this prompt.  This is with
>> openssh-8.6p1.  The fix in bug#43003 doesn't help here.
>
> The following patch should fix the problem, but I'm a bit wary about
> pushing it to Emacs 28, since these things may have unintended side
> effects.
>
> So I've pushed it to Emacs 29 instead.

FTR, I confirm that this patch fixes the problem for me.  Thanks!

Steve Berman

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