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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Login vs. typeahead
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.050402.470@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 17 Nov 90 05:04:02 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.182623.18967@smsc.sony.com> <1990Nov13.233329.8736@athena.mit.edu> <5798@stpstn.UUCP>
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
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In article <5798@stpstn.UUCP> lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman) writes:
>Is there any reason why one couldn't build a login program which
>always has echo turned off (and did a manual echo)?  I understand that
>the echoing would be slower, but the problem of echoed passwords would
>be solved.  Would that be acceptable?

Yes, except that most of the time it isn't login that prompts for
and reads the login.  Instead, it's usually getty or ttymon, depending
on the system.

I say "most of the time" because I believe that most people get their
username right the first time, and thus only give the password to
login.