Re: password shows on emacs as a shell

[Peter Weiss, Sun Microsystems, Germany]

>>>>> On 5 Nov 2002 08:33:56 -0800, kirpi@tiscali.it (Luigi) said:

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

Put the following in your .emacs:

  (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions 'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)

>From the documentation:

  comint-watch-for-password-prompt is a compiled Lisp function in `comint'.
  (comint-watch-for-password-prompt STRING)

  Prompt in the minibuffer for password and send without echoing.
  This function uses `send-invisible' to read and send a password to the 
buffer's
  process if STRING contains a password prompt defined by
  `comint-password-prompt-regexp'.


    Hth -- Peter

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