So if su outputs a prompt for "Smartcard PIN" instead of password,
would it also hang? What if it asks for "Kerberos password" as well
as normal password?
The point is you can't assume su prompts, no matter what the locale is.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
> I mean fget(3C) will never come back because "su" command has no outputs
> after the localized string "Password:" is just ignored.
>
> while ( 1 )
> {
> bzero(buffer, 255);
> r = fgets (buffer, 255, infile);
> ...
>
> parse_embedded_su_output (context, buffer);
>
> switch (context->msg_type) {
>
> case ES_PASSWORD:
>
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
>>
>>> I'm updating libgksu1.2-04-rbac-support.diff.
>>> gksu tries to parse the string "Password:" but "Password:" is
>>> localized on locale then gksu hangs up by itself.
>>> The patch means "su" command is always run on C locale.
>>
>>
>> And what happens when su prompts for something other than "Password:"?
>>
>
>
