The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. Allen> XEmacs 12.4.12 Solaris 8: Allen> M-x ssh remote_host Allen> root＠remote_host's password: PASSWORD_IN_CLEAR Just guessing, customize comint-password-prompt-regexp? Cc'ing xemacs-beta and maybe we can fix in a future release of the os-utils package. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.