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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:22:19 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/openpam/lib openpam_ttyconv.c
Message-ID:  <20020925132219.B40592@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209252020.g8PKKDOU016695@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jmallett@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:20:13PM -0700
References:  <200209252020.g8PKKDOU016695@freefall.freebsd.org>

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* De: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> [ Data: 2002-09-25 ]
	[ Subjecte: cvs commit: src/contrib/openpam/lib openpam_ttyconv.c ]
> jmallett    2002/09/25 13:20:13 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     contrib/openpam/lib  openpam_ttyconv.c 
>   Log:
>   Because prompting is done in stdin, the message should go to stdout.  This
>   un-fixes a major user-interaction bogon in -CURRENT sysinstall of setting
>   root's initial password.

This is where the stderr terminal (ttyv1) prints the prompt, but reads it
on the stdin terminal (ttyv0).  Thus there is disconnect between the prompt
and the read.  I personally think OpenPAM provides us with the functionality
to have our own dialog-based prompting, but I do not know if anyone will want
to develop that :)
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