Re: Login problem
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:15PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> > No, they can be buffered on the terminal. Try typing at 'sleep 5; cat
> > </dev/tty' if you don't believe me.
>
> hm - right, but login plays a lot with the terminal (it has to disable
> echo for instance), so maybe it flushes the buffer before to read the
> password - must read the source!
Yeah, that's probably why it doesn't behave as expected. ssh's
readpassphrase() function behaves in much the same way.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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