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.
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.