Hello Ian Jackson! }Package: adduser? miscutils? }Version: adduser (1.94-1), miscutils (1.3-2)
No. libc. }If I run adduser, and then decide to abort after having been presented }with the password prompt, I can't do it with ^C. passwd apparently }ignores ^C, and ^D simply produces another passwd prompt. Presumably }I would have to type in a password twice to escape; instead, I used }another terminal and killed the adduser process. Because I have heavily modified the passwd program in the last days I checked this report... The reason is not in the adduser nor in the miscutils (or util-linux where my passwd comes from). It's in the libc itself. The passwd programm just makes a system call: -- [passwd.c] -------------------------------------------------------- pwdstr = getpass("Enter new password: "); if (pwdstr[0] == '\0') { puts("Password not changed."); exit(1); } ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking at the source of libc you'll find the code that is responsible for disabling ^C: -- [getpass.c] ------------------------------------------------------- ttyb.c_lflag &= ~(ECHO|ISIG); ioctl(fileno(tty), TCSETS, &ttyb); ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The above code (from util-linux) will accept an empty password (generated with ^D) - and won't change anything. For me this is a correct behaviour - I can live with that. I haven't looked at the passwd program that is used by Debian. So far, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * Login&Passwd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / / Erfahrung ist eine n|tzliche Sache / / Leider macht man sie immer erst kurz nachdem man sie brauchte / ---------------------------------------------------------------- 30.10.95: Oldenburger Linux-Stammtisch, ab 20h im DaCapo