[Mailman-Developers] password from a tty

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US (Barry A. Warsaw)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:16:02 -0400 (EDT)


>>>>> "S" == Scott  <scott@chronis.pobox.com> writes:

    S>  here's a patch that will get passwords from a tty with echo
    S> off for mmsitepass and newlist only if it's possible, otherwise
    S> it gets the password the normal, more portable, less secure
    S> way.

Why would you not want to use the Python standard getpass module?

-Barry