Terminal doesn't take password

My friend's Leopard-equipped PowerBook G4 latch is broken, so I'm trying to turn off automatic lid wake on that laptop, as I have done successfully on my own PowerBook G4 with Tiger. I can paste or type the usual command into Terminal...
sudo pmset lidwake 0
...but when it asks for the password, it doesn't respond to keyboard typing! There doesn't seem to be any problem entering text except for the password. Therefore, we've been unable to get this command to take.
Has anyone ever run into this, and what's the solution?

All right, I probably wasn't precise enough because I'm not in front of my friend's computer. I know it's normal to have no keyboard feedback on the password. The problem is that nothing happens when I hit Return. It's supposed to apply the command and give me back the command line. But it just sits there without moving the command line cursor, the command line is not refreshed, the command is not applied and there is proof: it still wakes on lid open.
Yet I have done this successfully on my own PowerBook G4, so I know how it's supposed to work. I just can't figure out why it worked on my Tiger PowerBook G4 and not on my friend's Leopard PowerBook G4.

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