passwd not echoed by getpass

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <3B5358BE.CD031688 at ccuec.unicamp.br>, Sandra Regina
<sandra at ccuec.unicamp.br> writes:
| Warning: Problem with getpass. Passwords may be echoed. <<<------
[...]
|    It's installed on a sun with solaris 2.5.1

your copy of python has probably been compiled without the termios
module. the getpass module tries to use this to turn off terminal
echo, and falls back to raw_input() if it cannot import it.

  -- erno