Login vs. typeahead

[Lance Speelmon -- UCS]

In article <1990Nov13.182623.18967 at smsc.sony.com> dce at smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>We have a complaint that our system (like most versions of Unix)
>doesn't handle users who like to type their password immediately after
>their login.  Specifically, if a user tries to do this, some or all of
>the password they type is displayed on the screen, and then this data
>is ignored by getpass(), which flushes the input before it reads.
>
>What I would like to know is if there is a good reason for the current
>behavior, and if changing this behavior might in some way compromise
>the security of the system.

The machines that we have here also act the same way.  I don't think
that there is any way to change that.  I could be wrong though.


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Lance Speelmon                         |  University Computing Services
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