bug#45413: Password exposure on SSH login

[Daniel Martín]

"Pedro J. V. Mendes" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army
knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> OK, (only) after starting with emacs -Q does the password prompt (and
> the focus) appear at the mini-buffer.
>

Yes, that is expected.  The minibuffer prompt should hide your password
with asterisks as you type it.

I think this may not be a bug in Emacs, but a problem somewhere in your
Emacs configuration.  Comment out parts of your .emacs until you find
the culprit.