The Rust-based version of sudo shows password feedback by default in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, upending nearly 40 years of learned (and confusing) behaviour. Broadly, that decision has been well received, but those who want a quick option to temporarily mask their sudo input (no asterisks), just got one. You can now toggle sudo password feedback visibility by pressing the tab key. You can press it at any point during password entry (before you start or mid-way through, it doesn’t matter), and rather than asterisk, it shows (no-echo) instead. Here’s a video of it in action: The lack visible feedback during […]