[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#763869: Bug#763869: sysvinit-utils: sulogin segfault after `cannot open password database!`

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Note: The sleep of two seconds is also questionable. Unfortunately there
> is no comment explaining what the reason for it is.

IMHO, we should never mess with sleep(some seconds) in this kind of utility.
IME, they're almost always security devices:  Either they ensure the message
can be seen, or throttle down what would become a runaway process otherwise
in some failure modes, or throttle down repeated attempts at breaking the
password...

But yes, a comment would have been really nice...

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