Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!basilisk From: basilisk@banana.ucsb.edu (Can't touch this...) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: help with execve Message-ID: <6735@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 23 Oct 90 18:18:43 GMT References: <6732@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Reply-To: basilisk@cornu.ucsb.edu Distribution: comp.unix.questions Organization: UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Lines: 19 In-reply-to: thomas@uppsala.telesoft.se's message of 23 Oct 90 09:52:07 GMT >I can't imagine what you're trying to do. A class project. Do you really think that if I were trying to do something dishonorable I would ask the whole world for help? >Anyway, the password is read from the terminal with getpass(3), and if >you had RTFMed a little better you would know that it reads the password >from /dev/tty, not stdin. Thanks for the help. I could have done without the snide remark, though. If giving advice is such a chore, why do it? -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= | Basilisk, who is he? Basilisk, what is he? | Ed Jordan | | Basilisk,Ba-basilisk, where does he come from?| basilisk@cornu.ucsb.edu | =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=