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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:05:11 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Defect # 19467
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You're right, you should be working on other things.

The defect will slide if I say it will slide.  Have some backbone when
it comes to QA, would ya'?  From now on, the default answer for QA when
it comes to any question should be "Pffft, not."



On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:52:58 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> Hey Andy,
>     I know I should be doing other things, but in your absence last
> week I was asked to look at defect 19467 which despite all earlier
> reports is really about about cw_install.sh requiring the user to add
> the password to the ftp URL.
> 
> I was just thinking you could parse what the user supplies for ftp_url
> and if it is not in user:password@host/full/path/name format you could
> prompt the user for the password and use read -s to get the password
> without having it echoed on the screen and reconstruct the ftp_url
> before you pass it on to the download functions.
> 
> Anyway, I am only mentioning this in case you are not already working
> on it. I doubt if QE or CS will let this defect slide.
> 
> I, too,  thought BSD ftp would prompt for a password if you are giving
> it the host:/file syntax, but no such luck. Then I looked at
> cm_upgrade.c and saw someone wrote a function that allows system
> upgrade to work using the fetch filename syntax without a password.
> 
> Later,
> 
> Larry
