[csw-devel] [PATCH] Add support for reading password from a file by default

Maciej Bliziński maciej at opencsw.org
Fri Apr 22 15:08:56 CEST 2011


2011/4/22 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
> Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Fri Apr 22 08:10:23 -0400 2011:
>
>> +    password = getpass.getpass("{0}'s pkg release password> ".format(username))
>
> FYI, this bug in python is annoying. :(
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue11236

Yes, annoying indeed.  There were other bugs in getpass in the past,
e.g. it would display the password on screen on return.


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