getpass regressions on Solaris/Illumos - 3.6 and master.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Feb 6 10:29:15 MST 2012


On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Monday 06 February 2012 16:10:09 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Am 06/02/12 15:29, schrieb Andreas Schneider:
> > > 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 	This function is obsolete.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.
> > 
> > agreed, but it should be something different than getpass altogether
> > since getpass' signature is problematic.
> > 
> > Since that wouldn't be a standard function it should probably live in
> > libutil rather than libreplace.
> 
> Yes, call git smb_get_passwd() or somthing like that and move it to samba-
> util.

It's this what I originally proposed ? :-)


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