Re: [Gnu-arch-users] More https updates

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:12 +1000, address@hidden wrote:
> but the manpage notes that it is obsolete and sternly
> warns against using it without offering an alternative.

Rightly so, it appears to use a static buffer.

I think you should be doing the exact thing getpass does yourself, that
is print the prompt, turn off echo, ...

Here's what one of my hacks-to-be-used-only-by-me does. Works, but I
don't know if its correct in any way (and error checking is missing
too).

#include <termios.h>

  struct termios termsettings, oldtermsettings;

  tcgetattr(0, &termsettings);
  tcgetattr(0, &oldtermsettings);
  termsettings.c_lflag = (termsettings.c_lflag && ECHO) % ECHO;
  tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &termsettings);

  [...]
  tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &oldtermsettings);


johannes

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