Bug#650024: swaks: Echoes password when entering it for swaks -a

2011-12-30 Thread John Jetmore
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: tags 650024 + upstream thanks Hi Gunnar, Hi Axel, I'm bringing John Jetmore, the Swaks author, for his input. John, you can see all of my interchange with Axel at:  

Bug#650024: swaks: Echoes password when entering it for swaks -a

2011-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Gunnar, On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 05:54:30PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Uhmm... I understand your point. Now, Swaks is IMO (and quoting from the manpage) the all-purpose smtp transaction *tester* (emphasis mine). Sure. Using Swaks as a mailer is IMO an abuse. No objection, either. I never

Bug#650024: swaks: Echoes password when entering it for swaks -a

2011-12-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
tags 650024 + upstream thanks Hi Gunnar, Hi Axel, I'm bringing John Jetmore, the Swaks author, for his input. John, you can see all of my interchange with Axel at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650024 Axel requested the addition of an option to supress the echoing of the

Bug#650024: swaks: Echoes password when entering it for swaks -a

2011-11-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Axel Beckert dijo [Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 06:39:16PM +0100]: Package: swaks Version: 20100211.0-2 Hi, when testing SMTP AUTH with swaks -a, swaks does not turn off terminal echoing before asking the user to enter his password and the password stands there in plain text until swaks finishes

Bug#650024: swaks: Echoes password when entering it for swaks -a

2011-11-27 Thread John Jetmore
FWIW this is addressed in svn with a new --protect-prompt option (which will do as much as possible to protect sensitive information that is entered at the command line, though at the moment that's only password entry). I won't be turning this on by default since it doesn't fit my used of swaks

Bug#650024: swaks: Echoes password when entering it for swaks -a

2011-11-25 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: swaks Version: 20100211.0-2 Hi, when testing SMTP AUTH with swaks -a, swaks does not turn off terminal echoing before asking the user to enter his password and the password stands there in plain text until swaks finishes and the user can clear the terminal to hide the password. I also