[email protected] wrote: > Here is a patch that intends to fix #6014. getpassphrase() (which in > turn would be a getpass() call, or lutil_getpass() call), returns a > pointer from a static char * pointer, which should never be free()'ed. > Therefore, a strdup() should be called. > > Note that, since both getpass() implementation could return NULL, we can > not strdup() directly. Instead, we need to detect whether it's NULL and > handle separately.
Probably, a better solution would be to implement a lutil_get_terminal_password(char *prompt, struct berval *passwd) routine that mallocs as appropriate. p. Ing. Pierangelo Masarati OpenLDAP Core Team SysNet s.r.l. via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it ----------------------------------- Office: +39 02 23998309 Mobile: +39 333 4963172 Fax: +39 0382 476497 Email: [email protected] -----------------------------------
