Protect the terminal from control characters
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Since Feb 14, 2019.
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Description
We've added a non-invasive but also rather ineffective safeguard in #3641. As discussed in comments on that PR, we need to actually guard the terminal against control characters embedded in login names, candidate passwords, and cracked passwords.
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