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From: pdl@root44.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: question about getpass
Message-ID: <3169@root44.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jun-83 12:37:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 12 12:37:48 1983
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I don't understand. Why should one want /dev/tty to be unopenable?
The whole point of getpass is to read a password from the terminal,
so that peaople can't do tricks with it (e.g. piping millions of passwords
in to see which one's right).
If, on the other hand, you meant `how can /dev/tty ever not be readable?'
the answer is because of `administrative error'.