[Openswan dev] xauth prompt / klips-only commands patch

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Mon Feb 15 15:34:48 EST 2010


On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Avesh Agarwal wrote:

> The attached patch addresses following two issues:
>
> 1. (rhbz #560596) There are commands like spi, spigrp and tncfg which are 
> only supported with KLIPS and these are not being handled correctly with 
> NETKEY.
>
> 2. XAUTH password read from the prompt is being stored permanently in a 
> variable. This is fine if the password is being from a file to save from 
> rereading the file again. However, when read from prompt, password can be 
> entered wrong, and this may happen frequently when using something like RSA 
> secure ID where password changes frequently. So it is always better to read 
> password from the prompt always in case wrong password is entered.

I've merged these in. Just slightly changed the output texts. Thanks!

Paul


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