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by crazysim 86 days ago
Did that echo the password back on the screen or just asterisks?
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The password, otherwise you have no way to check you've got it right.
Oh yeah, I can see why some might freak out about that.
Me too, in the sense that I can see why people freak out about spiders, but it's difficult to come up with any realistic scenario where you need to be worried about a random attacker standing behind you looking over your shoulder to write down your password as you install a server.