X-RDate: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:24:26 +0500 (ESK)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:57:08 -0600
From: Brian Macke <macke@telegroup.com.>
To: [email protected]Subject: Re: FreeBSD getpass "feature"
I just verified this on our servers... it appears to only affect the 2.2
series kernel, and not 2.1 and lower. For 2.1, even with multiple intr's,
it will not echo the password.
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 ([email protected]) [http://www.agmar.ru/~gvs/]
>
-Brian James Macke [email protected]
Unix SysAdmin/Security Specialist Telegroup, Inc.
"In order to get that which you wish for, you must first get that which
builds it." -- Unknown
