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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: HP-UX 11 limits password length to 8 characters
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: HP-UX 11 limits password length to 8 characters |
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:49:56 +0200 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> Personally I'd just use my own replacement code.
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> Also see:
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> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2001-02/msg00023.html
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> 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 <bruno@clisp.org>
* modules/getpass-gnu: New file.
* MODULES.html.sh (func_all_modules): Add getpass-gnu.
* m4/getpass.m4 (gl_FUNC_GETPASS_GNU): New macro.