Strange read_passphrase behaviour ?

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Mon Feb 11 02:36:31 EST 2002


On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:42:33PM +0200, Jarno Huuskonen wrote:
> Perhaps a better fix would be for read_passphrase return NULL to the
> caller if it can't read password and let caller worry about it. I'm not
> sure how well for example auth-pam.c is able to cope if read_passphrase
> returns NULL.

most of the callers to read_passphrase do not
check for NULL.

perhaps i'm going to add a flag to read_passphrase
to allow return of NULL.



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