Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:02:09 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG, cyrille.lefevre-lists@laposte.net, jhell@DataIX.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, glen.j.barber@gmail.com Subject: Re: su password prompt to stdout instead of /dev/tty Message-ID: <201001290802.o0T829sd050043@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <4B6228EF.5050400@laposte.net>
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Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> found it, the guilty is prompt() in
> src/contrib/openpam/lib/openpam_ttyconv.c and not getpass() as usual...
Are you sure this affects su(1) only?
> => fputs(msg, stdout);
>
> which should be, IMHO, something like :
>
> FILE *ttyp;
> ttyp = fopen("/dev/tty", "w")
> if (!stdtty)
> ttyp = isatty(fileno(stderr)) ? stderr : stdout;
> fputs(msg, ttyp);
>
> or, at least :
>
> fputs(msg, stderr);
As long as it's still possible to easily redirect the prompt
on the command line, it's fine with me.
Right now I can do this in a script:
echo -n "$myprompt: " ; su $somerole >/dev/null ...
If that doesn't work anymore, I'll complain. ;-)
Best regards
Oliver
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