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Article #13276passwd program
From: Stuart Cracraft
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1989 21:59
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1989 21:59
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I have some concern about the recently announced enhanced passwd program. The new passwd won't work in an emacs shell because when it checks for the username, it only uses getlogin() which returns null for pty's. It must do a more elaborate check in the case getlogin() returns null. Next, it does not seem to disable echo mode sufficiently, so that in an emacs shell, the password echoes! It looks like a pretty nice upgrade, except for the above nits. --Stuart
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: cracraft@ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: passwd program Keywords: Software Message-ID: <3945@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 12 Dec 89 21:59:16 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 12 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Original: v8n210 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 225, message 15 of 16