Re: Best practice prompting for password

2007-09-07 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GiBo wrote: > what's the best practice to securely prompt user for password on console > in Python? IIRC some programs like SSH do a lot to ensure that the input > comes from TTY and is not redirected from somewhere and several other > checks. Does it? Why bother?

Re: Best practice prompting for password

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Mellon
On 9/7/07, GiBo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > what's the best practice to securely prompt user for password on console > in Python? IIRC some programs like SSH do a lot to ensure that the input > comes from TTY and is not redirected from somewhere and several other > checks. In the case of O

Best practice prompting for password

2007-09-07 Thread GiBo
Hi, what's the best practice to securely prompt user for password on console in Python? IIRC some programs like SSH do a lot to ensure that the input comes from TTY and is not redirected from somewhere and several other checks. In the case of OpenSSH even the password prompt is always displayed re