Re: [bugzcxx-devel] getpass function is deprecated

[BugzCXX D. <bug...@li...>]

2010/1/14 BugzCXX Developers wrote:
> Rakesh,
> Even though every example program password prompt has been secured by means
> of the getpass function we've failed to notice that such function has been
> obsoleted as read from getpass(2) manual page so it seems we need to think
> of a better way to overcome this, as you can see in the
> examples/bugzcxx/testlogin.cpp there is a function called safe_getpass()
> which is a very ugly implementation of getpass and basically what it does is
> disable echo from the controlling terminal, then it gets user input and
> re-enables echo again.
> The way it was implemented is calling the stty command with the proper
> parameters, which as I said is pretty ugly, I know we can work this out by
> means of the tcsetattr function.
> Can you take a look into this?
> Thanks
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Your investigation is true. I will have a look at it soon, thanks.


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