[Patches] Patch to make tempfile return random filenames

Erno Kuusela erno@iki.fi
Wed, 24 May 2000 23:25:53 +0300


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| >pps. while on the subject of security, i think the
| >getpass module should raise an exception if it fails to
| >get the tty into a non-echoing mode. it could fall
| >back to stty...
| 
| The current version prints a warning message if the
| password will be echoed.  The warning is printed 
| for each call to getpass.  Is this sufficient or 
| do you think that an exception is necessary?  Not sure myself.

i guess it is better than nothing, but it would be nice to at least
have the option to have an exception raised. (i would consider it a
malfunction for, say, a password-changing program to echo the
password in the clear.)

  -- erno

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