Re: CVS commit: src/crypto/external/bsd/openpgpsdk/dist/src/app

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:55:44AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:43:35AM +0000, Alistair G. Crooks wrote:
>  > If the user hasn't passed the pass phrase in as a command line argument
>  > (not such a great idea), use getpass() to get the passphrase.
> 
> What's the maximum length handled by getpass() these days?

getpass(3) tells me:

         The password may be up to _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128) characters in 
length.

and we use getpass() for cgdconfig and other functions.

Why?

Regards,
Alistair