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No characters on screen when typing password

Asked by berend

When I start up "the Konsole Terminal Program" standard implemented in the most recent KDE environment 3.5.5.
after type succesfully the letters su behind the $ sign.
In answer the first question appears.. "Pasword ?"
Whatever I tried to type. no character at all will be displayed behind the word Pasword.

Who can tell me what to change so characters will be accepted in the Terminal Program?
Thank you very much so far,

Bart

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Thats the normal behaviour. There is no feedback on the screen while you type your password.
Just type it and press enter.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#2

On a side note, su is not implemented in Ubuntu. Use sudo instead.

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berend (b-de-jong) said : 		#3

Thank you for you effort Cesare, but unfortunately your answers won't work for me.

after username :$ sudo <enter>
the complete usage parameters of sudo was listed.
after username:$ su <enter>
Password: is asked (seems to normal to me at this stage?)

the proplem continues to me.. what ever I type here.. (even the correct root pasword)
nothing seems to received by the terminal program. (als num lock on..tried everything)

I downloaded a payed program on my desktop. filenaam.sh
I have to give an instruction in the terminal program to install the program..
#sh install-crossover-standard-6.0IbetaI.sh but if my pasword can not be typed in...
it won't be possible to install a program :)

If somebody have a tip for me ?

Regards
Bart

n.b. X terminal (Konsole 1.6.5 using KDE 3.5.5 on latest Kubuntu distribution)

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#4

Bart,

you can use sudo in two main ways:

sudo command -> will run the command as root (ie. sudo ./install)

sudo -i -> will simulate a login as root (to terminate use an exit command)

Have a look at "man sudo" for some more detailed information.

As I said there is no feedback whatsoever when you type your password. Just finish it with enter and the system will tell you if the password is accepted or not.
And remember that the "root" password is the the password of the user with admin privileges (usually the installer's password).

Success,

Cesare

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berend (b-de-jong) said : 		#5

Hello,

Behind username: $su (enter)
Pasword: (text appears and a dot to type)

(I understand you can not see anything about the pasword you typing here OK)

But, even if I type here the correct Root pasword (I logged in as Root succecfull on this PC) the answer on this pasword input is;
su: Authentification failure
sorry
usesername:$

Any suggestion to solve this?

Bart

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#6

No suggestions, it is simply disabled in Ubuntu. As I told you we don't use su, we use sudo.
Please refer to this page for further explanations:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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