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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619196

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619196#c0


           Summary: zypper's password dialog is broken
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.3
           Version: Factory
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: YaST2
        AssignedTo: jkupec@xxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: mls@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
                CC: ma@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: Development
           Blocker: ---


Zypper's get_password() function used when repositories need to be authorized
has two severe limitations:

1) it only reads passwords up to 20 characters
2) it ignores all characters that are not alphanumeric

NCC/SMT uses 32 character passwords.

Why don't you just use getpass()?

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