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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.sbin/adduser adduser.perl
To: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 12:17:44 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199609110836.BAA21200@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 11, 96 01:36:58 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> jkh         96/09/11 01:36:57
> 
>   Modified:    usr.sbin/adduser  adduser.perl
>   Log:
>   Make passwords no longer echo or display.  Because of this, we now also
>   ask for matching confirmation.  I'm sure there is a clever direct-from-perl
>   ioctl way of putting the terminal into noecho mode, but I don't feel like
>   learning perl so I just used system.  [yes, I'll put stty on the installation
>   boot floppy as necessary]
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.17      +16 -4     src/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.perl
> 

Jordan,

How big is the combination of perl+stty compared to curseperl?  If they are
in the same range then curseperl can handle that kind of stuff...

Gary

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