I install pantheon desktop environment and now using sudo gives me password feedback with asterisk like this.
But I like the old behavior where is doesn’t show anything and no feedback.
Please tell me how do I go back to old setting.
Thank you
I install pantheon desktop environment and now using sudo gives me password feedback with asterisk like this.
Use visudo
and remove pwfeedback from the default options.
sudo visudo
You have to be familiar with basic vi
usage.
It added a file /etc/sudoers.d/pwfeedback
I renamed it and it stopped the annoying stars.
sudo mv /etc/sudoers.d/pwfeedback /etc/sudoers.d/pwfeedback.disabled
fouind it in elementary os forum
I tried visudo thing by adding default env_reset line but it didn’t fix it.
but renaming the /etc/sudoers.d/pwfeedback
file fixed it
Interesting, because I don’t have any such config named pwfeedback
under /etc/sudoers.d/
, so good catch that installing Pantheon created it.
pacman -Fx pwfeedback
shows the file is owned by the package pantheon-default-settings.
According to man sudoers
, and searching for /sudoers.d:
That will only be temporary until the owning package (pantheon-default-settings
) will get updated.
Better to create a disabling file in /etc/sudoers.d
with a name specifically chosen to get it evaluated after /etc/sudoers.d/pwfeedback
.
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