On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:12:51 +0100 Stephen Eglen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> For me it's the same as for Rich Heiberger: dots when entering the >> password in the minibuffer but then it gets printed in cleartext after >> the "Password: " prompt in the *R* buffer. This is with R version 3.3.1 >> Patched (2016-09-02 r71210) Platform: x86_64-suse-linux-gnu (64-bit), >> ESS 16.04 built today from the Git repository (commit 14e80d60) and with >> both a recent Emacs build from the Git master branch as well as Emacs > > hi Steve, > > interesting - this is the first report on linux that I'm aware of. > > Can you try something like the following: > > M-x shell > > and then in that *shell* buffer try to ssh somewhere that will ask you > for a password. > > Does the *shell* also echo the password? No, the password is not printed in the *shell* buffer. If you can tell me what ESS function to instrument, I can try edebugging. Steve Berman ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
