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Re: password shows on emacs as a shell

From: Joachim Pense
Subject: Re: password shows on emacs as a shell
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:20:00 +0100
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kirpi@tiscali.it (Luigi)
(be47c593.0211050833.20ae67cf@posting.google.com">news:be47c593.0211050833.20ae67cf@posting.google.com): 

> 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?
> Luigi

If you want to enter a password, type "M-X send-invisible". Then you are 
prompted for the text, enter it in hidden format, and it is not displayed.

Joachim
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