Re: Default Password callback

On 10/1/20 5:37 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> I'm implementing support for NSS into a codebase which already has OpenSSL
> support, and when looking at the passphrase callbacks I ran into a question.
>
> Is my understanding correctl that there is no default password callback like
> how OpenSSL has a fallback reading from a TTY?  SECU_GetModulePassword and the
> supporting functions are clearly private and not exposed, but since the docs
> don't spell it out I wanted to doublecheck to make sure I hadn't missed
> anything.

That's correct. NSS is often run with windowed systems, so only the 
application knows how to get to the user to prompt for a password.

SECU_GetModulePassword is part of the command line utilities library, 
which you could grab and use in your application.


bob

>
> cheers ./daniel


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