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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Show Asterisks when changing Password Post 303002781 by caperjm on Friday 1st of September 2017 08:17:07 AM
Old 09-01-2017
RedHat Show Asterisks when changing Password

Note: **Showing Asterisks when using SUDO is not what I am looking for. That method is well documented**

Short Description: We have a requirement where users want to see that they are typing a password when logging into a RedHat box or when they are changing their password -- instead of seeing nothing.

Reason for request: I have Windows users who use an application where I configured Windbind to connect to our Active Directory environment for account authentication. After x number of days, users are required to change their AD password via a Unix interface. *nix default behavior as we know, is to not show asterisks/anything when typing a password (for security or 'dev folk never got around to changing the code to change this behaviour' reasons). Whatever the case, I have been asked if there was a way to allow for Asterisks to be shown when users are logging in or changing their password. Is there a configuration change anybody is aware of, or a commercial product that will do this?

I have found many - many posts to do it when using SUDO, but this will not accomplish what I need to do.
 

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Text::Password::Pronounceable(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			Text::Password::Pronounceable(3pm)

NAME
Text::Password::Pronounceable - Generate pronounceable passwords SYNOPSIS
# Generate a pronounceable password that is between 6 and 10 characters. Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate(6, 10); # Ditto my $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new(6, 10); $pp->generate; DESCRIPTION
This module generates pronuceable passwords, based the the English digraphs by D Edwards. METHODS new $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new($min, $max); $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new($len); Construct a password factory with length limits of $min and $max. Or create a password factory with fixed length if only one argument is provided. generate $pp->generate; $pp->generate($len); $pp->generate($min, $max); Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate($len); Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate($min, $max); Generate password. If used as an instance method, arguments override the factory settings. HISTORY
This code derived from mpw.pl, a bit of code with a sordid history. o CPAN module by Chia-liang Kao 9/11/2006. o Perl cleaned up a bit by Jesse Vincent 1/14/2001. o Converted to perl from C by Marc Horowitz, 1/20/2000. o Converted to C from Multics PL/I by Bill Sommerfeld, 4/21/86. o Original PL/I version provided by Jerry Saltzer. LICENSE
Copyright 2006 by Best Practical Solutions, LLC. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> perl v5.10.1 2010-08-16 Text::Password::Pronounceable(3pm)
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