The following reply was made to PR lib/24879; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/24879 (readline emulation problem: password not hidden)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:41:29 +0100

 On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:02:59PM +0000, jdolecek@netbsd.org wrote:
 > Does the problem still happen?
 
 Seems to work now -- do you have an idea when it could have been
 fixed, so I can add an appropriate pattern to the package?
  Thomas