Sudo Can Asterisk

With sudo tool getting its Rust variant, it was bound sooner or later to have an incompatibility that is in the eye of the beholder. That dubious honor fell onto pwfeedback setting.

Most complete reporting was already done by Brodie Robertson so watch that video for details. Suffice to say, I am firmly in the camp of those who believe that the new behavior is correct. Let them have asterisk!

But, if you don’t want to wait for the bright future but you want this password echo behavior now, this is really easy to achieve.

echo "Defaults pwfeedback" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/pwfeedback >/dev/null
sudo chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/pwfeedback

Now you can experience the future today.