Re: password shows on emacs as a shell

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From: Kai Großjohann
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 17:14

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kirpi@tiscali.it (Luigi) writes:

> I run Linux SuSE 8.0 and try Emacs as a unix shell.
> The bad thing is that as "su -", emacs shows the password while I type it.
> Not so nice.
> What do you think, please?

See the function comint-watch-for-password-prompt.

kai
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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
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Subject: Re: password shows on emacs as a shell
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:14:51 +0100
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