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29.3; Emacs eshell password prompt is in clear text

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel de Castro Victoria <daniel.victoria <at> embrapa.br>,
 jporterbugs <at> gmail.com
Cc: 77318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77318: 29.3; Emacs eshell password prompt is in clear text
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:58:13 +0300

> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:33:42 -0300
> From:  Daniel de Castro Victoria via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 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)
> 
> -------
> Welcome to the Emacs shell
> 
> ~ $ cd projetos
> ~/projetos $ cd zoneamento/modelos/rAgS/ 
> ~/projetos/zoneamento/modelos/rAgS $ git status
> On branch interface
> Your branch is up to date with 'origin/interface'.
> 
> nothing to commit, working tree clean
> ~/projetos/zoneamento/modelos/rAgS $ git fetch 
> Username for 'https://www.gitlab.xxxxx.xxxxxx.br': mXXXXX
> Password for 'https://mXXXXX <at> www.gitlab.xxxxx.xxxxxxx.br': my pass is clearText
> --------------------
> 
> I found this discussion on the email archives but I'm not sure how to make the changes. I'm new emacs user
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-01/msg00569.html

Jim, any comments?

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