From: Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:23:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add comment: cyeoh says that getpass is deprecated, because it may
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Add comment: cyeoh says that getpass is deprecated, because it may
return a truncated password on some systems, and it is not in the LSB.
---

diff --git a/authenticate.c b/authenticate.c
index 40582201..2b981195 100644
--- a/authenticate.c
+++ b/authenticate.c
@@ -272,6 +272,9 @@ void auth_client(int fd, char *user, char *challenge)
 	if (!user || !*user) return;
 
 	if (!(pass=getpassf(password_file)) && !(pass=getenv("RSYNC_PASSWORD"))) {
+		/* XXX: cyeoh says that getpass is deprecated, because
+		   it may return a truncated password on some systems,
+		   and it is not in the LSB. */
 		pass = getpass("Password: ");
 	}