topic Re: login help in Operating System - HP-UX

login help

Abhilash Krishnan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:42:22 GMT

Dear all
When I am entering the login password it shows blank area.Is there any procedure to change it to (*) astrip.

Re: login help

Torsten. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:47:18 GMT

It's working as designed.

I can't imagine any advantage to see some * symbols ...

Re: login help

Mark McDonald_2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:00:12 GMT

Biju

There is no way of displaying astrix that I know of.

How about somepoints for this answer: http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1330902

:-)

Mark

Re: login help

Torsten. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:01:33 GMT

See also

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-60631/login.1.html

...
The user's login name is requested, if it is not specified on the command line, and the corresponding password is obtained, if required, with the following prompts:

login:
Password:Terminal echo is turned off (where possible) during password entry to prevent written records of the password.
...

Re: login help

Abhilash Krishnan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:35:22 GMT

Dear all

Thanks for your reply.

Re: login help

Torsten. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:46:29 GMT

From your profile:

I have assigned points to 16 of 129 responses to my questions

This is a little less.