It is intentional, confuses people who like to stare over shoulders
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Irv Mullins wrote:
>
> Does anyone know why, when you try to use
> terminal (super user, kdesu) you get a password dialog,
> in which every key pressed is echoed three times?
>
> Example: if root password were pig, you would type
> pig, and see echoed: ********* (9 starz)
> and an invalid password message. Of course it's invalid,
> there are three times as many characters as you typed in.
> This makes kdesu unusable.
> Any ideas?
>
> Irv
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