Re: [Libvir] Use of getpass

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:28:58PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > We recently added a call to getpass(3) function. Needless to say this > doesn't exist on Windows. More seriously the man-page for getpass on > Linux has strong exhortations not to use the function. > > NAME > getpass - get a password > > SYNOPSIS > #include <unistd.h> > > char *getpass( const char * prompt ); > > DESCRIPTION > This function is obsolete. Do not use it. > > The getpass() function opens /dev/tty (the controlling terminal > of the > process), outputs the string prompt, turns off echoing, reads > one line > (the "password"), restores the terminal state and closes > /dev/tty > again. > [...] > CONFORMING TO > Present in SUSv2, but marked LEGACY. Removed in POSIX.1-2001. > > Should we remove it? Replace it? I'm open to suggestions? I'm not aware of any 'easy' functions to do the same thing. Could write a whole tonne of sick code which uses the tcgetattr/tcsetattr() apis to turn off echoing on stdin, but getpass was simpler. Maybe gnulib has something we can use ?