Echo asterisks for password entry

[zoof]

It would be helpful to have asterisks echoed during password entry as I use a yubikey for the 2nd half of my password at work and with no feedback, I cannot be sure that a password was entered or that it is the password and not the FIDO OTP.

[versat]

Since asterisks can reveal password length I think many authentication processes especially under Linux do not echo them.
It would be totally fine if someone adds an option that enables asterisks, but it should be off by default, so the behavior does not change without explicitly configuring it so.

[zoof]

That sounds reasonable. Unfortunately, I know no C so I wouldn't be able to take this on.

[Px7-941]

I see more benefit in better platform integration of keychain.
What can also be interesting is to use the current user and his credentials.
(SSPI for Windows, NoMAD/JAMF managed Macs, Mac/Linux Keychain).

What do you think?

An interesting project about Local Proxy and NoMAD integration:
https://github.com/samuong/alpaca#usage

[jschwartzenberg]

@Px7-941 for proper integration with SSO, ideally you'd use the Kerberos support. In our environment this is allowing things to work transparently as the ticket is obtained when logging in.