Cinnamon: sudo password is typed as characters of asteriks

[meysam81]

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• Cinnamon version (4.0.8)
• Distribution - (Mint 19.1)
• Graphics hardware Nvidia and Intel
• 64 bit
  ```

Issue
in the new linux mint 19.1 Tessa, after running a sudo command for the first time (when it is asking for a password), the typing password is types as characters of asteriks (*), which wasn't the case before.

[leigh123linux]

I believe ubuntu changed something in sudo config.

[Odyseus]

Hello, everybody.

@meysam81: You can get rid of those asterisks by removing the /etc/sudoers.d/0pwfeedback file.

[meysam81]

@Odyseus Thanks man, that fixed it.

[tkivisik]

If deleting seems too scary:
sudo nano /etc/sudoers.d/0pwfeedback
From:
Defaults pwfeedback
To:
Defaults !pwfeedback

[claudiux]

Commenting the line also do the trick.

[smurphos]

I believe ubuntu changed something in sudo config.

No it's added by mintsystem - https://github.com/linuxmint/mintsystem/commit/ffad4cc9ea5ee2b8541d28bc74f613fe70ff72b2

As any update to the mintsystem package will recreate the original /etc/sudoers.d/0pwfeedback the best way to change the behaviour is by adding another override file.

echo 'Defaults !pwfeedback'|sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/9_no_pwfeedback