Re: Re: HP-UX 11 limits password length to 8 characters
Derek Robert Price <[email protected]>
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Bruno Haible wrote:
>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.
>
>
Thanks. I've updated CVS to use the new API, though in this case I am
not sure it was necessary. I had previously simply added getpass.c to
cvslib_a_SOURCES in lib/Makefile.am and called gl_PREREQ_GETPASS
directly from configure.in rather than gl_FUNC_GETPASS.
Regardless, the modules doc should be useful for some.
Thanks,
Derek
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