It's Not Broken - It's Linux!

January 23rd, 2009, 9:52 pm

I thought that I was loosing my mind back when I was trying to get SSH working on windows. I tried everything I could lay my hand on - from Putty to OpenSSH and everything kept “freezing” when I would make it to the password prompt. I don’t know how much time I spent trying to find something, anything, that would explain why a solid XP machine couldn’t handle a couple tiny SSH programs.

Well, today while trying to learn Ubuntu I found this:

Your password is being accepted in the terminal. You just aren’t getting any visual feedback. Go ahead and type your password and hit Enter afterwards. If you typed your password correctly, there should be no problems.- psychocats.net

It seems those prompts never froze after all. It is just in the Linux nature for password fields to show “nothing” when typing in a password. After years on a PC, that was news to me. The only time something doesn’t respond on a PC is when it is actually busted.

Anyway, I would think that you would want a least some type of response from the prompt. Maybe some day the linux guys will build some kind of notifier so that we don’t waste our time thinking something is wrong when it’s not. Until then, the all mighty google might help the rest of you scratching your heads to find this page.

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Alxandr

if(linux == broken) { trace("Told you so!"); } else { trace("What's wrong with you?") }

:-P

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David

I think you forgot the code block lol

if(linux == broken) { trace("Told you so!"); } else { trace("What's wrong with you?") }

Other than that I got everything working but video playback and recording. Boy, my first week of linux was a long one. ;)

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Alxandr

My first week was my last :-P

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