--On Wednesday, May 28, 2003 13:26:17 -0400 Andrew Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe J.W. Schultz replied to this but I lost it since I was not yet fully subscribed to the list. He rightly suggested that the a portable getpass() would be non-trivial. An alternate suggestion though: Solaris has a getpassphrase() call that returns up to 256 chars. The configure script could check if the function exists and do an appropriate #define. Then authenticate.c can be made a bit be smarter in a generally portable way.
getpassphrase() is definitely worth using. OpenSSH also has a portable readpassphrase() that you could steal.
I love the fact that the man page for getpass() under Linux says "don't use this", but does not provide any alternative. Mmmm... Linux - it's so secure! ;-)
-- Carson
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