Re: [orca-list] root security

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Cody:

When Orca knows you are in a password field in a GUI, it does the right 
thing.  Unfortunately, gnome-terminal is a whole different beast.  As 
such, I'm not sure Orca can reliably detect if the terminal is in 
'password entry' mode or not.  :-(

We might be able to hack around this, but I think the unfortunate 
workaround for now is to disable key echo.

Will

Cody wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I notice that when doing a sudo su and it asks for your password, orca
> says the characters as you type them even though nothing is printed on
> the screen. This is a security hole and can it be fixed?
> Thanks
>
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