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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: bug in mntlib44's getpass.c?!?
- Date: Wed, 18 May 94 19:30:42 +0100
-
- Hi!
-
- There seems to be a bug/feature in the getpass.c code of the current Mintlib.
- The problem is that it only reads PASS_MAX+1 chars, but the +1 is only enough
- to hold the terminating #0. So if you have want to read passwords with 8 chars,
- you won't be able to hit return/enter, because the routine exists earlier.
- It's not something terribly bad, but annoying. If you replace the two
- occurences of PASS_MAX+1 with PASSMAX+2, everything looks fine again.
-
- It happened to me when using Steve's (hi! :-) MintOS 1.3 package. Obviously,
- because he now uses the library routines for the BSD sources, where the old
- 1.2 used its own routines...
-
- ciao,
- TeSche
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- Torsten Scherer (TeSche, Schiller...)
- Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Europe, Earth...
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