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Ubuntu Tips – Display Asterisks When Typing Your Password in Terminal

Last updated: August 8, 2014

Display Asterisks when typing password

When you run a command started with sudo in Ubuntu terminal, it asks you to insert the password for your user with no visual feedback as you type.

For beginners who feel uncomfortable with this terminal feature, below will teach you how to tweak your Ubuntu so that Gnome terminal (and TTY console) displays asterisks when you type in your password.

Terminal with password feedback

Terminal with password feedback by displaying asterisks

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. Or open terminal from Unity Dash.

Open Terminal to run commands

2. Paste the below command in terminal and hit enter. Type in your password when prompt.

sudo visudo

It will open the configuration file “/etc/sudoers” in terminal with nano editor.

Edit sudoers in Ubuntu

3. Make a new line:

Defaults        pwfeedback

under the line:

Defaults        env_reset

So it looks like this: (NOTE that the space between Defaults and pwfeedback should be a tab)

Enable password feedback in terminal

4. Now save the changes. Press Ctrl+X, type y to answer yes, press Enter to accept default file name.

Close this terminal window and done.

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Fotoxx 13.07 Released: Install it on Ubuntu 13.04, 12.04

Last updated: April 4, 2019

Fotoxx, a free and open source photo editing and collection management sofware for Linux. The new version has just been released with quite a few changes.

Changes in Fotoxx 13.07:

  • The gallery navigation has been extended with new options;
  • Effects > Drawing and Effects > Outline functions have been combined;
  • Batch Add Tags and Delete Tags have been combined into a more flexible tool;
  • Edit Collections has been made easier (add/delete/cut/copy/paste images);
  • The gallery of the newest images have been added to the database.
  • full changes in official announcement

The getdeb repository has updated this new release for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring and 12.04 Precise users. You can follow the below steps to install or upgrade:

1.) Download and double-click on the getdeb package to add the repository to your system.

Download & install GetDeb repository

2.) If you installed Synaptic Package Manager, open it, then Reload and finally search and install Fotoxx package.

fotoxx-synaptic

If not, run this command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install fotoxx

Enjoy!

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Install Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.04

Last updated: November 3, 2013

Sublime Text

This simple tutorial will show you how to install Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, and 12.04 Precise from ppa repository.

Sublime Text is a popular text and source code editor. Sublime Text 3 Public Beta is now available to both registered users and the general public. The Webupd8 team created a ppa repository containing the installer for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, then follow below steps:

1.) Copy and paste this command into terminal and run to add the ppa repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3

2.) Update:

sudo apt-get update

3.) Below command will automatically download and install the latest Sublime Text 3 Beta in your system.

sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

Enjoy!

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