Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!tcs%usna.uucp@BRL-BMD.ARPA From: tcs%usna.uucp@BRL-BMD.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: getpass() query Message-ID: <6944@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 17:55:15 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6944 Posted: Thu Jan 3 17:55:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 23:43:01 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 12 I've implemented the nu program recently posted and would like to drive it from a shell script for adding and deleting large groups of students. Nu calls getpass() to read the password from the terminal. The manual says that if getpass cannot open /dev/tty, it will read the standard input. Since one must run nu as root, /dev/tty is always opened. Is there a way that I can make /dev/tty hidden enough that getpass reads stdin? Thanks, -tcs Terry Slattery U.S. Naval Academy 301-267-4413 ARPA: tcs@brl-bmd UUCP: decvax!brl-bmd!usna!tcs