Good!
I always thought it was annoying anyway.
Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
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Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#172Inacceptable! This incident will be reported.
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#173The number of times I've been stuck wondering if my keystrokes are registering properly for a sudo prompt over a high latency ssh connection. These servers I had an account setup too were, from what I observed, partially linked with the authentication mechanism used by the VPN and IAM services. Like they'd have this mandatory password reset process and sometimes sudo was set to that new password, other times it was w…
I agree that this move is good. But you should not type sudo passwords on remote machine. Instead setup your machinr to have nopassword for special sdmin account and enable pubkey only authentication.
With sudo you can also give people specific access to commands.
I personally use the pam ssh agent module for this, that way you can use agent forwarding with sudo.
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#174They could have just made it an option to enable the new behavior. There was no need to change the default. As for security: 'shoulder surfing' may not be as much of a concern, but watching a livestream or presentation of someone who uses sudo will now expose the password length over the internet (and it's recorded for posterity, so all the hackers can find it later!). They've just introduced a new vulnerability to t…
An accessibility feature helps more people if is it is on by default.
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#175The number of times I've been stuck wondering if my keystrokes are registering properly for a sudo prompt over a high latency ssh connection. These servers I had an account setup too were, from what I observed, partially linked with the authentication mechanism used by the VPN and IAM services. Like they'd have this mandatory password reset process and sometimes sudo was set to that new password, other times it was w…
The number of times i realized half way that I probably posted the wrong password and so I vigorously type the 'delete' key to reset the input is too damn high
Just type Control-U once.
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#176The number of times I've been stuck wondering if my keystrokes are registering properly for a sudo prompt over a high latency ssh connection. These servers I had an account setup too were, from what I observed, partially linked with the authentication mechanism used by the VPN and IAM services. Like they'd have this mandatory password reset process and sometimes sudo was set to that new password, other times it was w…
You can tell if you input something or not, based on the blinking cursor, in which case it is not "frozen".
Unless you disable cursor blinking because you find it annoying (like I do).
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#177JCBP!
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#178The number of times I've been stuck wondering if my keystrokes are registering properly for a sudo prompt over a high latency ssh connection. These servers I had an account setup too were, from what I observed, partially linked with the authentication mechanism used by the VPN and IAM services. Like they'd have this mandatory password reset process and sometimes sudo was set to that new password, other times it was w…
The number of times i realized half way that I probably posted the wrong password and so I vigorously type the 'delete' key to reset the input is too damn high
Get out of my head, lol :)
But yeh, never thought this was a problem anyone else delt with. My passwords are all a variant of my on "master password" and sometimes forget which session I'm in so trying to save keystrokes, count backward to where I think the cursor should be.
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#179The number of times I've been stuck wondering if my keystrokes are registering properly for a sudo prompt over a high latency ssh connection. These servers I had an account setup too were, from what I observed, partially linked with the authentication mechanism used by the VPN and IAM services. Like they'd have this mandatory password reset process and sometimes sudo was set to that new password, other times it was w…
Around 2004 someone gave me Linux CDs (I think it was mandrake?) that I tried to install. And I got stuck at the password input part of the setup, I thought it didn’t work and went back to windows. I didn’t start using Linux until 13 years later… I think I’d have switched much earlier if not for that weird UI decision.
Re: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
#180This is such a good decision. It's one of those things that's incredibly confusing initially, but you get so used to it over the years, I even forgot it was a quirk. In the modern world there is no plausible scenario where this would compromise a password that wouldn't otherwise also be compromised with equivalent effort.
I also think it is a good decision. Nevertheless it breaks the workflow of at least one person. My father's Linux password is one character. I didn't knew this when I supported him over screen sharing methods, because I couldn't see it. He told me, so now I know. But the silent prompt protected that fact. It is still a good decision, an one character password is useless from a security standpoint.
If it breaks the workflow of one person but makes it better for many more, it's likely a worthwhile tradeoff.