Ubuntu 26.04 will show asterisks when you type your sudo password, as Canonical adds a patch to its Rust-based sudo-rs.

The Rust implementation sudo-rs now shows asterisks by default when typing passwords. A break with long Unix tradition.

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...

Linux has gone a long way to popularize the use of sudo. While it doesn’t seem all that long since common practice involved having multiple admins all logging in as root and doing all of their work ...