From: "Dario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:16 AM
> Hello,
>
> This patch to htpasswd.c makes it read the user password from stdin instead
> of from the command line or prompting the user for it interactively. This is
> useful for applications that need to update a user password noninteractively
> and do not want to risk someone seeing the new password in the command line
> using a program like ps.
Agreed, that's ugly.
> Instead of using the option -b to make htpasswd use the password given at
> the command line, you would use -B, and the program would then read up to
> 512 characters from stdin (using a safe fgets). The program will error out,
> though, if the password is longer than 256 characters (the default max).
>
> The patch file (diff'ed against the 1.3.20 version) is available at
> http://www.bem-vindo.com/patch.txt
+1 from here (without looking at the patch, answering mail offline right now.
Should serve a warning to always include the text of the patch in the email :-)
