docs/75235: [patch] Handbook: chapter 2.9.16, add sentence about passwords not being echoed

[Joel Dahl]

>Number:         75235
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] Handbook: chapter 2.9.16, add sentence about passwords not being echoed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 18 21:30:21 GMT 2004
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joel Dahl
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dude.automatvapen.se 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Sat Nov 13 19:50:36 CET 2004 joel at dude.automatvapen.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WRK i386

	
>Description:
I'd like to add a small sentence to section 2.9.16 in the handbook,
just to clarify that nothing echoes when you type a new password
for root, which seems to confuse some people (especially users
coming from Windows).

Comments?
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	

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Index: chapter.sgml
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.306
diff -u -r1.306 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml	12 Dec 2004 14:32:56 -0000	1.306
+++ chapter.sgml	18 Dec 2004 20:55:32 -0000
@@ -4492,7 +4492,8 @@
 
       <para>The password will need to be typed in twice correctly.  Needless to
 	say, make sure you have a way of finding the password if you
-	forget.</para>
+	forget.  Notice that the password you type in is not echoed, nor
+	are asterisks displayed.</para>
 
       <screen>Changing local password for root. 
 New password : 
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