Clear password entry field in the shell

Oct 17, '02 09:47:01AM

Contributed by: bitweever

This is just a quick tip for those of you (like me) who constantly mis-type their password when telneting, and don't like to wait for the 'username: ' prompt to come back around. When you realize that you mistyped it, just hit Control-U, and it clears out the buffer! This works for telnet, ssh, and ftp, and it works on most UNIX systems.

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