On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 13:04 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote:
Hi,
In the latest Fedora 19 Beta TC2 install after I got through the initial steps of the install I started to setup my root password.
To my surprise my password was shown in plain text instead of bullets.
For the record:
commit da565b769979a031f318dbc727b9888e4f1fb37c Author: Chris Lumens clumens@redhat.com Date: Mon May 6 17:18:30 2013 -0400
Revert "Add signal handlers for controlling password entry visibility." (#958608).
This reverts commit 99464761dab4e43cfbf8caa059815c6ab67c6282.
Internet, you may stand down.
I don't know if the devs plan to look at the various 'compromise' solutions that were suggested, or if the plan is just to stick with regular old full-on masking. But right now, the status is that we're back to full-on masking.