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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions Creating Users

Posted by Maddie Huish
Maddie Huish
2,130 Points

curl -L trhou.se/patch01 | bash causes my command line window to lock up and I can't enter the password

any thoughts on how to get around this? Its in the creating users exercise in the console workshop.

1 Answer

Michael Afanasiev
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Michael Afanasiev
Courses Plus Student 15,596 Points
Michael Afanasiev
Michael Afanasiev
Courses Plus Student 15,596 Points

Hey Maddie,

Sorry but I gotta ask, you are aware of that typing the password in the terminal will not show any characters and you just have to remember your password sequence like number of spaces and such?

What I mean is once you write curl -L trhou.se/patch01 | bash you will be presented with [sudo] password for treehouse: and you must type mike the frog and press Return/Enter key but you won't see anything appearing on the screen.

If you do as I mentioned above, try reseting the cache for your browser, or even use another one to test it out.

Maddie Huish
Maddie Huish
2,130 Points

Hi Michael, yes, I'm a dork, I did finally realize that... :)... not used to passwords in unix I guess... thanks!

Sam Allen
Sam Allen
7,176 Points

Thank you, Michael Afanasiev! Before checking in this section, I rebooted the console twice. (I have little experience using consoles from some past CCNA training but I don't recall characters not showing for passwords and such, although that was a year or more ago and could have been the case.) Thank you!