Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.27-1 Severity: normal
Dear Debian package maintainer, The man page for getpass(3) states "This function is obsolete. Do not use it.". However, it does not state any alternative way of obtaining a similar high-level behavior. Recall that getpass allows to read a password from a terminal without having the password displayed on the terminal. Alternative ways have been pointed out on stack overflow[1]. I do not suggest to present a full replacement of the getpass function. But pointing the reader to the ECHO mask of tcgetattr(3) would most likely cover the main use cases. Thank you very much, Erik [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6856635/hide-password-input-on-terminal -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: ii manpages 3.27-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin manpages-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
