Skip Montanaro skip at mojam.com
Sun Oct 1 11:23:56 EDT 2000

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    Eric> I need to get the root password from the user to exec a program
    Eric> which requires root privileges. 

Why not just exec su or sudo and let them worry about password problems?

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