Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords by b0ringdeveloper on Saturday March 21, 2026 @10:41AM (#47467482)

Someone should make a joke version that replaces the ***s with comedic passwords or ridiculously bad ones: When you're typing your real password, "iloveyouiloveyou", "12345612345", or "hunter42hunter.." gets printed to the screen.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords by the_real_cher on Saturday March 21, 2026 @11:46AM (#47468067)

I would absolutely install this.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords by chuckadams on Saturday March 21, 2026 @02:10PM (#47469610)

Do like Lotus Notes did and have it update a row of literal hieroglyphics on every keystroke.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords by andai on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:05PM (#47470746)

This made me think, it seems like there used to be a lot more whimsy in computing. I'd love to see more of that.

Whimsy, and character.

Used to be that everything was trying to look different. Now it seems like everything is trying to look the same.

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Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords by morkalork on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:16PM (#47470852)

1) It definitely feels like we're out of Cambrian explosion period of experimentation

2) It's amazing the amount of (pseudo-) nostalgia that millenials, gen-Z and younger have for 90s-2010s computer aesthetic. The Amazing Digital Circus comes to mind for example

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Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords by necovek on Saturday March 21, 2026 @10:50PM (#47473988)

On the contrary, this discussion is how there was no character when you were typing your sudo password in in the olde times, and now there is a full asterisk per every password symbol you put in!

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Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords by stavros on Saturday March 21, 2026 @05:26PM (#47471587)

While I support this for the humour factor, it does make it much easier for a shoulder surfer to count characters, for whatever that's worth.

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