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2020 Jun 01
0
[PATCH nbdkit 3/3] todo: Suggest password=-tty as future enhancement.
password=+/dev/tty works already, but it does not print a ?password: ?
prompt or suppress echo.
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TODO | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 02627069..c1a6ec0a 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ General ideas for improvements
realloc is suspect)
- add more iterators, map function, etc, as required.
+* Add password=-tty to mean read a password interactively from /dev/tty.
+ This is slightly different from password=+/dev/tty
+
Sugg...
2020 Jun 01
7
server: Fix reading passwords interactively.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1842440
Patches 1 and 2 address fairly obvious bugs in how we handle reading
passwords from stdin.
There are other ways we may consider fixing these bugs:
- Should password=- always open /dev/tty and ignore stdin entirely?
- Should we make password=-0/-1/-2 work by skipping the close? Or
perhaps reopen the file descriptors on /dev/null after