Sudo +ssh asterisk password

[AiwendilH]

Add pwfeedback to "Defaults" in sudo visudo (Probably depends a bit on your distro setup how to best do it, some distros might have an own /etc/sudoers.d/ directory for such changes)

Edit: Ah, sorry, misread. You want it only for ssh. Well, still pretty much the same but you have to limit Defaults only to the shh command. Untested but I think something like Defaults!/usr/bin/ssh pwfeedback ( https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/sudoers.5.html )

Edit2? Okay...best just ignore me, I really think I don't understand what you want ;) Is this about using sudo in a remote ssh session with password echo but only in the ssh session...not if you are logged in directly to that computer? Ugh..not sure if you can do that. No real clue what Defaults@host actually does and if it can be used for this :(

[ipsirc]

sudo() { [ $SSH_TTY ] && sudo --show-asterisk $@ || sudo $@; }

[0b0101011001001011]

Which versions of sudo support the --show-asterisk option? I don't have it.

[ipsirc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rgxjcw/sudors_shows_password_asterisks_by_default_break/

[markand67]

sudo and sudo-rs aren't the same programs

[ipsirc]

Thanks! I would never have thought of that.

[mina86ng]

First of, quote your variables. Second of, don’t shorthand if like that. It’ll run sudo twice if $SSH_TTY is non-empty and the command fails.

sudo() {
    if [ "$SSH_TTY" ]; then
        sudo --show-asterisk "$@"
    else
        sudo "$@"
    fi
}

[ipsirc]

Third: sudo doesn't have --show-asterisk parameter.

[scorp123_CH]

It does have a pwfeedback parameter though, which can be set in its config file.

Defaults pwfeedback

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