GNU bug report logs - #77318
29.3; Emacs eshell password prompt is in clear text

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Daniel de Castro Victoria <daniel.victoria <at> embrapa.br>,
 77318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77318: 29.3; Emacs eshell password prompt is in clear text
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:04:22 -0700

On 3/27/2025 10:33 AM, Daniel de Castro Victoria via Bug reports for GNU 
Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> While using eshell to issue some git commands I noticed that the 
> password prompt is not masking the characters. My passwords appear as 
> clear text. Bellow is a copy/paste from my eshell terminal (I just 
> masked some info)

The easiest fix would probably be something like this:

  (setq eshell-password-prompt-regexp comint-password-prompt-regexp)

I'm not sure why Eshell and Comint have such different password prompt 
regexps; that was before my time. If there are no objections in the next 
few days, I can make a change like the above on the master branch.

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