Password Feedback in Terminal

Enable Password Feedback in Terminal¶

Warning

In order to enable the well known asterisk behavior while typing the password in Terminal, sudoers file needs to be edited, so be very careful while following the steps. Make sure the sudo version is 1.8.31 or above.

Step 1 : Check sudo version Older sudo versions have been known to have exploit which can be used to grant sudo privileges to any normal user. This has been fixed in version 1.8.31 and hence it is to be made sure that before proceeding ahead, sudo is the right version.

sudo --version

Step 2 : Only use visudo command to edit the sudoers file

Type the following in Terminal which will open up the typical sudoer file in vi editor which is similar to Vim.

sudo visudo

Step 3 : Add the necessary line

Defaults        pwfeedback

The file would look similar to this,

Step 4: Save, exit and restart the Terminal session After the above line is added,simply save and exit using :wq command and restart the terminal session(i.e., close this terminal and start again). DONE