Did Guido have any ideas on what changed in the 2.2 series to warrant
this?
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, GvS One wrote:
> Hi, netters!
>
> I just found some discouraging feature of the getpass(3) function,
> which affects the all programs which are using it: passwd, login, ...
> When you press ^C (send intr) at the password prompt, you... can enter
> then password visible (echoed). It does _not_ affect slogin/ssh
> package because it uses other password giving mechanism.
>
> I don't know, if somebody consider this behaviour normal, but I'm
> not. So, after the few mail exchange with Guido, I've got the
> solution: install getpass v1.6 from the current CVS tree which is
> available from www.freebsd.org. Having problem with applying the
> fetched diff for getpass I patched it manually, rebuilt the diff and
> placed it to the
>
> ftp://ftp.agmar.ru/pub/unix/FreeBSD/getpass.c.1.5-1.6.diff
>
> So all those how think like me that's abnormal behaviour for the
> getpass can use it. Wish you well.
>
> SY, Seva Gluschenko, just stranger at the Road.
>
> --- IRC: erra
> * Origin: gone to the Internet (gvs@agmar.ru) [http://www.agmar.ru/~gvs/]
>
-Brian James Macke macke@telegroup.com
Unix SysAdmin/Security Specialist Telegroup, Inc.
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