su password prompt to stdout instead of /dev/tty

[Oliver Fromme]

Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
 > found it, the guilty is prompt() in 
 > src/contrib/openpam/lib/openpam_ttyconv.c and not getpass() as usual...

Are you sure this affects su(1) only?

 > => fputs(msg, stdout);
 > 
 > which should be, IMHO, something like :
 > 
 >         FILE *ttyp;
 >         ttyp = fopen("/dev/tty", "w")
 >         if (!stdtty)
 >                 ttyp = isatty(fileno(stderr)) ? stderr : stdout;
 >         fputs(msg, ttyp);
 > 
 > or, at least :
 > 
 >         fputs(msg, stderr);

As long as it's still possible to easily redirect the prompt
on the command line, it's fine with me.
Right now I can do this in a script:

echo -n "$myprompt: " ; su $somerole >/dev/null ...

If that doesn't work anymore, I'll complain.  ;-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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