Subject: Re: root password prompt fails
To: Chapman Flack <nblists@anastigmatix.net>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/14/2006 15:23:10
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:04:39PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> In an ideal world, redirecting stdin to a pipe does not change the
> ctty of the process, and if su looked at /dev/tty rather than stdin it
> would not get thrown off; this sounds like something su could be
> taught to do, if there is not some (questionable?) standard requiring
> it to use stdin.
>=20
> I think that would be a more farsighted fix than anything that could
> be changed in pkgsrc/mk.

you seem to be forgetting that pkgsrc is not restricted to
NetBSD-current, only.

regards,

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