From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
17839@debbugs.gnu.org, Sebastian Wiesner <swiesner@lunaryorn.com>
Subject: bug#17839: 24.4.50; read-passwd echoes password input in non-interactive sessions
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:43:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtx6pmaik.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvi9jn5w.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:36:43 +0200")
> Well, I've tried this 'cos I believe it is important. The idea is to
> give the prompt in read-passwd the text property 'hide-chars. In
> noninteractive mode, emacs writes "." instead of echoing the password
> while typing. You can test it with
I think a more idiomatic way to do that would be to use a global Lisp
var that's let-bound in read-passwd.
> + else if (hide_chars && (c == 127)) /* DEL */
> + {
> + /* Unfortunately, we cannot edit stdout. */
> + // fprintf (stdout, "%c", c);
> + /* Hmm, this doesn't work for multi-byte characters. */
> + (len > 0) && len--;
> + }
I don't think that's worth the trouble.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-10 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 13:51 bug#17839: 24.4.50; read-passwd echoes password input in non-interactive sessions Sebastian Wiesner
2014-06-23 15:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-23 16:52 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-06-24 18:41 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-24 22:55 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-06-25 7:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-25 8:01 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-25 8:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-25 9:20 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-25 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-25 10:03 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-25 9:52 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-06-25 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-26 19:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 14:36 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-10 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-07-11 9:15 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 9:41 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 9:58 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 11:32 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 12:43 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 14:57 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-11 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-05 20:25 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-06 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 11:12 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-07 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 13:12 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-07 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 16:08 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-08-07 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-11 10:15 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-10 21:46 ` Sebastian Wiesner
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