password shown in asterisks (*)

Hi,

This may be a dumb question, but today I realized that when doing a 'svn
export' my typed password is shown in asterisk:

Password for 'user': ******************

This behaviour is new to me. Typed password invoking 'svn export' was
supposed to not output any character.

I was wondering if this have to do with svn or another thing like PAM
modules or so... I was worried on having a corrupted svn binary after some
update.

Cheers,

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Sebastián Treu
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