Excellent.
Xin Li had a partial patch earlier tonight that got the prompts directed properly to console.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: (ITS#6702) slappasswd prompts missing
From: Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com>
To: gessel(a)blackrosetech.com
Date: Thu Nov 11 2010 19:18:29 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
> gessel(a)blackrosetech.com wrote:
>> Note: on editing slapd.conf, I see that prompt IO is directed to the file, not to the console. That is the file contains the prompts:
>> "rootpw New password:"
>> "Re-enter new password:"
>>
>>
>>
> Apparently FreeBSD doesn't provide a usable getpassphrase() in its libc, so a
> replacement in the OpenLDAP code is used instead. The OpenLDAP code is now
> fixed in HEAD.
>