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Posted by akersten 22 hours ago

Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords(pbxscience.com)
316 points | 320 commentspage 6
GrayHerring 10 hours ago|
Stop trying to fix what is not broken. If people have issues with latency or typing then the solution is not to "bypass" it.
system2 9 hours ago||
How many times I pressed backspace more than I typed because holding backspace probably didn't work... This is a good change IMHO. Laggy remote SSH sessions will be slightly better.
the__alchemist 9 hours ago||
JCBP!
the_real_cher 11 hours ago||
I've never once thought I wish I could see password characters when typing sudo.

It feels like dumbing down the cli.

But I don't know if this is an elder millenial walk up hill in the snow both ways kind of thing though.

Am I alone in this?

androiddrew 13 hours ago||
I don’t know why this keeps coming up. Has this been a big deal for everyone else? Like ok usability improvement, but the number of times I have read an article about this is silly.
weedhopper 9 hours ago|
I doubt this is about the asterisks at this point. It’s about Rust, rewriting working tools in Rust and showing that Rust is the way and the only way.
snvzz 14 hours ago||
If it is a new tool, why not call it something else than sudo?

The expectation with sudo is silent passwords.

post-it 9 hours ago||
The expectation with sudo is that it escalates the privilege of the command I want to run. They don't rename Ubuntu every time they tweak the UI.
ziml77 8 hours ago|||
Do you also complain about GNU coreutils divergences from the original Unix utilities despite having the same names?
antisol 13 hours ago||
Because if you name it something different it's harder to do the "extinguish" step of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
weedhopper 9 hours ago||
Must’ve been hard not to name it rusdo because Rust has to come first (before any logic).
charcircuit 19 hours ago||
Modern password ui also gives the option to toggle the actual letters on so you can verify that you are actually typing the right thing. Hopefully that doesn't take another 46 years.
antisol 13 hours ago|
Oh yeah, let's echo passwords on-screen! Genius! What could possibly go wrong?
charcircuit 8 hours ago||
In reality not much compared to the UX win of being able to see it.
edf13 19 hours ago||
That site is terrible without ads blocked… it’s like a local newspaper site, you had to try and read the content in small snippets wedged between ads!
b112 19 hours ago||
For more than four decades, typing a password after a sudo prompt in a Linux terminal

What?!

2026 minus 46 is 1980. There was no Linux, at all, in 1980.

Someone is quite confused.

throawayonthe 18 hours ago|
sudo is from 1980, that's probably what they meant

https://www.sudo.ws/about/history/

b112 8 hours ago||
No, they simply don't understand the history of the very thing they report on. If you look at the quoted text, they easily could have said 'Unix" terminal.

They also repeatedly talk about a 'half century' of Linux terminals in other parts of the article. This site seems to cater to Linux specifically in many respects, so it's quite reasonable to call them out on super-simple stuff.

devnotes77 8 hours ago|
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