bug#16374: password not hidden in shell when mounting cifs partition

[Tyler Smith]

I'm not sure if this is really an Emacs bug, or just a limitation of *shell*

Starting from emacs -Q:
M-x shell
mount ./network-drive
;; (fstab for this drive is:
//<network.location>/<folder>$/     /home/user/network-drive      cifs
noauto,users,user=<my username on the network>,uid=<my local
username>,rw     0       0
;; )

;; I am now prompted for my network password. When I enter it and press
;; return I see this:
Password for <user>@//<network.location>/<folder>$/:  <my password in
plain text>
********

The point is, the asterisks should be appearing in place of my actual
password. Instead, they appear in addition to my password.

Thanks for your time,

Tyler

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.6)
 of 2013-12-31 on ONOTTAR654746
Bzr revision: 115821 eliz@gnu.org-20131231160134-l7omrq232pdxvdnt
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