[ofa-general] ib-diag: use of getpass()

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
> saquery calls getpass, and according to the man page:
>
> 'This function is obsolete.  Do not use it.'
>
> Can we remove this call?  What is your preference for replacing it?  (Use scanf?
> take the SM Key as a command line argument?)

There was a thread on this back in June 2008:
http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2008-June/051057.html

Sasha wrote:
glibc info page doesn't indicate this. Also I did some
googling and looked at glibc code itself - found nothing suspicious yet.
Finally it is how password handled in 'su'.

-- Hal

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