From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:20:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Write the prompt *after* turning off echo to avoid some password characters
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_6_7~98
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f9ed308f07e029e067e0b33010627bfc7bc8ea8;p=sudo

Write the prompt *after* turning off echo to avoid some password characters
being echoed on heavily-loaded machines with fast typists.
---

diff --git a/tgetpass.c b/tgetpass.c
index 659f854dc..a99604f4b 100644
--- a/tgetpass.c
+++ b/tgetpass.c
@@ -154,9 +154,6 @@ restart:
 	output = STDERR_FILENO;
     }
 
-    if (prompt)
-	(void) write(output, prompt, strlen(prompt));
-
     /*
      * Catch signals that would otherwise cause the user to end
      * up with echo turned off in the shell.  Don't worry about
@@ -187,6 +184,9 @@ restart:
 	memset(&oterm, 0, sizeof(oterm));
     }
 
+    if (prompt)
+	(void) write(output, prompt, strlen(prompt));
+
     pass = tgetline(input, buf, sizeof(buf), timeout);
     save_errno = errno;