Arkadiusz Patyk <a...@areq.eu.org> said:
> On 03 Oct 2003 01:25:54 +0200, Stefano Bracalenti
> <stefano.bracale...@prometeia.it> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 22:07, Arkadiusz Patyk wrote:
> > Thu Oct 02 22:00:10 2003 0: OpenVPN 1.5-beta9 Win32-MinGW [SSL] [LZO]
> > [MTU-DYNAMIC] built on Oct 1 2003
> > Thu Oct 02 22:00:10 2003 1: Sorry but I can't read a password from the
> > console because this operating system or C library doesn't support the
> > getpass() function
> > Thu Oct 02 22:00:10 2003 2: Exiting
> >
> > ;-(
> >
> > How can I protect using password ?
>
> You need the getpass() function. I use one from a libc windows
> porting.
> You can add something like this to win32.c:
>
> ---
>
> char *
> getpass (const char * prompt)
> {
> static char input[256];
> HANDLE in;
> HANDLE err;
> DWORD count;
>
> in = GetStdHandle (STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
> err = GetStdHandle (STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
>
> if (in == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE || err == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
> return NULL;
>
> if (WriteFile (err, prompt, strlen (prompt), &count, NULL))
> {
> int istty = (GetFileType (in) == FILE_TYPE_CHAR);
> DWORD old_flags;
> int rc;
>
> if (istty)
> {
> if (GetConsoleMode (in, &old_flags))
> SetConsoleMode (in, ENABLE_LINE_INPUT
> |
> ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT);
> else
> istty = 0;
> }
> rc = ReadFile (in, input, sizeof (input), &count,
> NULL);
> if (count >= 2 && input[count - 2] == '\r')
> input[count - 2] = '\0';
> else
> {
> char buf[256];
> while (ReadFile (in, buf, sizeof (buf),
> &count,
> NULL) > 0)
> if (count >= 2 && buf[count - 2] ==
> '\r')
> break;
> }
> WriteFile (err, "\r\n", 2, &count, NULL);
> if (istty)
> SetConsoleMode (in, old_flags);
> if (rc)
> return input;
> }
>
> return NULL;
> }
>
> ---
>
> Also remember to uncomment or insert if missing "#define HAVE_GETPASS
> 1"
> in config-win32.h. Recompile and enjoy ;)
>
> ==============--
>
> Is it possible to include this feature in next version?
Yes, I will merge it for upcoming 1.5-beta10
James
