New password echoes on Sol8

Kevin Steves stevesk at pobox.com
Sat Oct 27 06:31:32 EST 2001


On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Ed Phillips wrote:
:I tried replacing readpassphrase() for v2.9.9p2 on Sol8 with a different
:version that just calls getpassphrase().  It appears to solve the echo
:problem when the user tries to login in interactive mode and needs to
:change their password.
:
:Can anyone else try this with v2.9.9p2 on Solaris?  Be sure to add:

no!

try this:

Index: auth-pam.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/openssh/auth-pam.c,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -r1.37 auth-pam.c
--- auth-pam.c	2001/04/23 18:38:37	1.37
+++ auth-pam.c	2001/10/26 20:30:42
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
  * messages with into __pam_msg.  This is used during initial
  * authentication to bypass the normal PAM password prompt.
  *
- * OTHER mode handles PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_OFF with read_passphrase(prompt, 1)
+ * OTHER mode handles PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_OFF with read_passphrase()
  * and outputs messages to stderr. This mode is used if pam_chauthtok()
  * is called to update expired passwords.
  */
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 			case PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_OFF:
 				reply[count].resp = xstrdup(
 				    read_passphrase(PAM_MSG_MEMBER(msg, count,
-				    msg), 1));
+				    msg), RP_ALLOW_STDIN));
 				reply[count].resp_retcode = PAM_SUCCESS;
 				break;
 			case PAM_ERROR_MSG:




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