Re: Re: HP-UX 11 limits password length to 8 characters

Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Personally I'd just use my own replacement code.
>
> Also see:
>
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2001-02/msg00023.html
>
> where inetutils had a similar problem.  I don't think they fixed it
> either.

To solve this, I've now added a module 'getpass-gnu' to gnulib. It provides
a GNU getpass() in all cases. Description: "getpass() function: read a
password of arbitrary length from /dev/tty."

Hope this helps.


2003-07-31  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>

	* modules/getpass-gnu: New file.
	* MODULES.html.sh (func_all_modules): Add getpass-gnu.
	* m4/getpass.m4 (gl_FUNC_GETPASS_GNU): New macro.
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