From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:01:00 -0500 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Implementing cooked mode In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50612201827r5cf152c2k601e88e4e5689924@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7871fcf50612201654u2bf12d6j7a8291991e4ef991@mail.gmail.com> <7871fcf50612201827r5cf152c2k601e88e4e5689924@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f6f41fca-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > BTW: do all programs that accept passwords in (rio) console raw mode > have to implement the full cooking themselves? Yes, but there is a library routine to ask for a password. Also, very few programs actually read passwords -- usually factotum does it for them. Russ