Re: Administrator password
Re: Administrator password
- Subject: Re: Administrator password
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:18:44 -0500
- Thread-topic: Administrator password
on 06/11/14 9:51, Quinn at email@hidden wrote:
> At 7:09 -0500 14/11/06, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>> But chkpasswd seems to work fine in my program. Is there a reason
>> to not "just" call chkpasswd()?
>
> I'm not a great fan of fork/exec'ing command line tools to do work
> that can be done with a real API
Yes, I agree with that, having had users run into process limits a few
times.
> One thing
> to be careful of...
>
> The getpass() function displays a prompt to, and reads in a
> password from, /dev/tty. If this file is not accessible,
> getpass() displays the prompt on the standard error output
> and reads from the standard input.
>
> If you call it from a GUI program, /dev/tty won't work and so the
> stdin trick will.
Yes, I have been piping the password into stdin from a GUI program, but I
didn't realize until now that it was a trick.
OK, you've convinced me. I'm downloading CryptNoMore, although it looks
like I may dump this whole idea.
Thanks, Quinn.
Jerry Krinock
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