getpass regressions on Solaris/Illumos - 3.6 and master.

Andreas Schneider asn at cryptomilk.org
Mon Feb 6 07:29:26 MST 2012


On Monday 30 January 2012 17:18:54 Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Or optionally, what about (for master at least) simply
> requiring getpassphrase in Samba ?
> 
> Change the replacement rep_getpass to be rep_getpassphrase
> for systems that don't support rep_getpass.
> 
> Comments ?

Am I the only one having the following sentence in the getpass() manpage:



	This function is obsolete.  Do not use it.




We should simply use always use our implementation.
 

	-- andreas

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