Re: recovering ssh passwords from memory

[Scott Long <scott () swiftview com>]

> Note that this is not portable. If you wanted to use a similar
> approach on other systems, you might need to use f->_IO_read_base
> rather than f->_base. Also, you could instead modify the code so that
> read(2) is used for password input, avoiding stdio completely.

Correct portable solution is setvbuf(). This is ANSI and allows you
to select where you want to place the stdio buffer. Just clear it after
you're finished with it.

Scott