[Pkg-shadow-devel] S/Key question (was: Info: prepare for release 4.0.16))

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

> - by default do not use libshadow_getpass() as getpass() replacemement.
>  Use libshadow_getpass() only when S/KEY support is enabled.
>  Current glibc getpass() handles correctly longer than 8 characters
>  passwords and libshadow_getpass() is used only because libc getpass()
>  do not handles password prompting with echo enabled,

I have qustion to S/Key users related to this change.

Is realy neccessary getpass() with echo enabled when S/Key support is used 
? If not and if can be used system avalaible getpass() this will allow 
remove libshadow_getpass() from shadow source tree.

Comments ?

kloczek
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