[6181] in bugtraq
Re: FreeBSD getpass "feature"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Guido van Rooij)
Thu Feb 26 11:49:30 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:07:09 +0100
Reply-To: Guido van Rooij <Guido.vanRooij@NL.CIS.PHILIPS.COM>
From: Guido van Rooij <Guido.vanRooij@NL.CIS.PHILIPS.COM>
X-To: regnauld@DEEPO.PROSA.DK
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19980225193927.16445@deepo.prosa.dk> from Philippe Regnauld at
"Feb 25, 98 07:39:27 pm"
>
> I always saw this as a "feature", just like s/key (at least on
> FreeBSD) that would echo your pass on login if you typed return
> on the first password prompt. Of course, echoing the password
> should is strongly discouraged on a remote session, but then
> again packet sniffing will catch you either way.
>
> I thought it was quite handy on lossy/extremely slow links.
>
You see how a bug turns out into a feature ;-)
Anyway, this was a real bug in the signal handling. It is still not
perfect and I'm planning a fix, though I have more important todo's
right now.
-Guido
