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The setting to echo isn’t configurable?
It is. Only the default changed. Also you can press tab if someone happens to be looking over your shoulder (and your password is so obvious they can guess it from the length).
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Its funny how a single japanese symbol would be harder to crack than the anglicized name for it
Do we know if the asterisks count Unicode code points rather than bytes?
Not showing feedback on user input is objectively confusing for inexperienced users.
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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.
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If you are brute forcing passwords, knowing the length only reduces the number of passwords to try by like 1 hundredth.
Drats, you're right. I thought it'd be worse, but the ratio seems to only depend on the number of letters in your character set: 1/count(letters in alphabet). For ascii at 95 printable chars you get 0.9894736842. Makes intuitive sense as the "weight" of each digit increases, taking away a digit matters less to the total combos. Maybe I'll start using one Japanese Kanji to confuse would be hackers! They could spend ho…
I don't really want to just disable passwords. I recall that causing technical pains. And this is a desktop PC in my home office and I'm just generally okay with the associated security risks.
The 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.
How many people with a loud mechanical keyboard shut their microphone to type a password whem sharing their screen in an audio/video call?
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Do we know if the asterisks count Unicode code points rather than bytes?
Doesn't really matter, the IME shows the input until you confirm which kanji you want.
I kind of hate typing in my password all the time. Is there a way to sacrifice some security and do something like... ask for my password but automatically input it if my phone is detected via Bluetooth? (not connected, just detected). I don't really want to just disable passwords. I recall that causing technical pains. And this is a desktop PC in my home office and I'm just generally okay with the associated securit…