Unable to type password in terminal

Created by Vojtěch Trefný
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password terminal sudo
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Bhavani Shankar

Q: I'm not able to type password in Terminal, it looks like the keyboard frozen!

A: It's easy - the passwords won't show up as you type them but they are being entered.. Notice that it won't show the '*' while you type, but just type in normally ! this is how it works to avoid people from looking over your shoulder !:-)