On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 07:20:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 14:59:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote:

[...]

> > > The tradition allows for configuring xdm to show stars when the password
> > > is typed.
> > 
> > That's right, but it's not the default. My advice was just for the
> > case that the OP wasn't "seeing" that things might be working as
> > intended.
> 
> Indeed it's not the default. My advice was for those users of xdm who
> would like some visual feedback when authenticating.

BTW. I looked it up, and the knob for that: set the X resource
xlogin.Login.echoPasswd to 'true' for that (CAVEAT: untested!)
create (or extend, if already present) the file /etc/X11/Xresources/xdm
and add the line

  Xdm*xlogin.Login.echoPasswd: true

Perhaps I come around to testing it tomorrow, then I'll shake
out the five bugs yet in there :)

Cheers
 - t

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