Confirmed in Feisty/Edgy. A safety workaround is to switch early to console 1 (ctrl-alt-f1), just when the keyboard is initialized: then the password won't get displayed.
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu Feisty) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- [edgy] usplash prevents passwords from being not echoed on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55159 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs