;;; passwd.el --- Prompting for passwords semi-securely ;; Copyright (C) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Jamie Zawinski ;; Version: 1.1 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;;; ;;; Entry point is `read-passwd', whose doc see. ;;; ;;; Once display-tables work in lemacs, it might be sensible to do this ;;; with a trivial call to read-from-minibuffer, plus setting a display ;;; table in the minibuffer to display all characters as the same. This ;;; would allow real line editing, including cursor motion. Right now, ;;; even if cursor motion were allowed, the cursor would always appear ;;; to be at the end of the line. ;;; ;;; I tried to simulate this by having two buffers, one of which had the ;;; real text, and one of which was a copy, containing the prompt and ;;; the echo chars, with the cursor in the appropriate position - but ;;; I couldn't convince redisplay to keep that buffer up-to-date in ;;; the minibuffer. There is still much minibuffer-activation-magic ;;; down in the C code that can't be simulated from lisp. ;;; ;;; When xterm goes into secure-keyboard-mode, it inverts the screen. ;;; It might be nice to do that here as well; should we just swap the ;;; foreground and background of the default face? It would be better ;;; to do the xor trick that visual-bell does. ;;; ;;; Should add a subr to clear out `recent-keys'. ;;; ;;; The call to x-grab-keyboard can cause this code to steal focus away ;;; from some other client - it would be nice if we waited until focus ;;; was back in some emacs screen before grabbing the keyboard. ;;; Code: (defvar passwd-echo ?. "*The character which should be echoed when typing a password, or nil, meaning echo nothing.") (defvar read-passwd-map (let (map) (if (fboundp 'set-keymap-parent) (set-keymap-parent (setq map (make-keymap)) minibuffer-local-map) ;; v18/FSFmacs compatibility (setq map (copy-keymap minibuffer-local-map))) (if (fboundp 'set-keymap-name) (set-keymap-name map 'read-passwd-map)) (let ((i 0) (s (make-string 1 0))) (while (< i 127) (aset s 0 i) (define-key map s 'self-insert-command) (setq i (1+ i)))) (define-key map "\b" 'delete-backward-char) (define-key map "\C-g" 'keyboard-quit) (define-key map "\r" 'exit-minibuffer) (define-key map "\n" 'exit-minibuffer) (define-key map "\C-u" 'passwd-erase-buffer) (define-key map "\C-q" 'quoted-insert) (define-key map "\177" 'delete-backward-char) map) "Keymap used for reading passwords in the minibuffer. The \"bindings\" in this map are not real commands; only a limited number of commands are understood. The important bindings are: \\ \\[passwd-erase-buffer] Erase all input. \\[quoted-insert] Insert the next character literally. \\[delete-backward-char] Delete the previous character. \\[exit-minibuffer] Accept what you have typed. \\[keyboard-quit] Abort the command. All other characters insert themselves (but do not echo.)") ;;;###autoload (defun read-passwd (prompt &optional confirm default) "Prompts for a password in the minibuffer, and returns it as a string. If optional arg CONFIRM is true, then ask the user to type the password again to confirm that they typed it correctly. If optional arg DEFAULT is provided, then it is a string to insert as the default choice (it is not, of course, displayed.) If running under X, the keyboard will be grabbed (with XGrabKeyboard()) to reduce the possibility that evesdropping is occuring. When reading a password, all keys self-insert, except for: \\ \\[read-passwd-erase-line] Erase the entire line. \\[quoted-insert] Insert the next character literally. \\[delete-backward-char] Delete the previous character. \\[exit-minibuffer] Accept what you have typed. \\[keyboard-quit] Abort the command. The returned value is always a newly-created string. No additional copies of the password remain after this function has returned. NOTE: unless great care is taken, the typed password will exist in plaintext form in the running image for an arbitrarily long time. Privileged users may be able to extract it from memory. If emacs crashes, it may appear in the resultant core file. Some steps you can take to prevent the password from being copied around: - as soon as you are done with the returned string, destroy it with (fillarray string 0) - do not copy the string, as with `concat' or `substring' - if you do, be sure to keep track of and destroy all copies. - do not insert the password into a buffer - if you do, be sure to overwrite the buffer text before killing it, as with the functions `passwd-erase-buffer' or `passwd-kill-buffer'. Note that deleting the text from the buffer does NOT necessarily remove the text from memory. - be careful of the undo history - if you insert the password into a buffer which has undo recording turned on, the password will be copied onto the undo list, and thus recoverable. - do not pass it as an argument to a shell command - anyone will be able to see it if they run `ps' at the right time. Note that the password will be temporarily recoverable with the `view-lossage' command. This data will not be overwritten until another hundred or so characters are typed. There's not currently a way around this." (save-excursion (let ((input (get-buffer-create " *password*"))) (set-buffer input) (buffer-disable-undo input) (use-local-map read-passwd-map) (unwind-protect (progn (passwd-grab-keyboard) (read-passwd-1 input prompt nil default) (set-buffer input) (if (not confirm) (buffer-string) (let ((ok nil) passwd) (unwind-protect (while (not ok) (set-buffer input) (setq passwd (buffer-string)) (read-passwd-1 input prompt "[Retype to confirm]") (if (passwd-compare-string-to-buffer passwd input) (setq ok t) (fillarray passwd 0) (setq passwd nil) (beep) (read-passwd-1 input prompt "[Mismatch. Start over]") )) ;; protected (if (and passwd (not ok)) ;; aborted after first passwd, but before confirmation. (fillarray passwd 0))) passwd))) ;; protected (passwd-ungrab-keyboard) (passwd-kill-buffer input) (if (string-match "^19" emacs-version) (message nil) ;; v18 compatibility (message "")) )))) (defun read-passwd-1 (buffer prompt &optional prompt2 default) (set-buffer buffer) (passwd-erase-buffer) (if default (insert default)) (catch 'exit ; exit-minibuffer throws here (while t (set-buffer buffer) (let* ((minibuffer-completion-table nil) (cursor-in-echo-area t) (echo-keystrokes 0) (key (read-key-sequence (concat prompt prompt2 (if passwd-echo (make-string (buffer-size) passwd-echo))))) (binding (key-binding key))) (setq prompt2 nil) (set-buffer buffer) ; just in case... (if (string-match "Lucid" emacs-version) (setq last-command-event (aref key (1- (length key))) last-command-char (event-to-character last-command-event)) ;; v18/FSFmacs compatibility (setq last-command-char (aref key (1- (length key))))) (setq this-command binding) (condition-case c (if binding (command-execute binding) (error "%s not defined" (key-description key))) (error (beep) (if (fboundp 'display-error) (display-error c t) ;; v18/FSFmacs compatibility (message (concat (or (get (car-safe c) 'error-message) "???") (if (cdr-safe c) ": ") (mapconcat (function (lambda (x) (format "%s" x))) (cdr-safe c) ", ")))) (sit-for 2))) )))) (defun passwd-erase-buffer () ;; First erase the buffer, which will simply enlarge the gap. ;; Then insert null characters until the gap is filled with them ;; to prevent the old text from being visible in core files or kmem. ;; (Actually use 3x the size of the buffer just to be safe - a longer ;; passwd might have been typed and backspaced over.) (interactive) (widen) (let ((s (* (buffer-size) 3))) (erase-buffer) (while (> s 0) (insert ?\000) (setq s (1- s))) (erase-buffer))) (defun passwd-kill-buffer (buffer) (save-excursion (set-buffer buffer) (buffer-disable-undo buffer) (passwd-erase-buffer) (set-buffer-modified-p nil)) (kill-buffer buffer)) (defun passwd-compare-string-to-buffer (string buffer) ;; same as (equal string (buffer-string)) but with no dangerous consing. (save-excursion (set-buffer buffer) (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((L (length string)) (i 0)) (if (/= L (- (point-max) (point-min))) nil (while (not (eobp)) (if (/= (following-char) (aref string i)) (goto-char (point-max)) (setq i (1+ i)) (forward-char))) (= (point) (+ i (point-min))))))) (defun passwd-grab-keyboard () (cond ((not (and (fboundp 'x-grab-keyboard) ; lemacs 19.10+ (eq 'x (live-screen-p (selected-screen))))) nil) ((x-grab-keyboard) t) (t (message "Unable to grab keyboard - waiting a second...") (sleep-for 1) (cond ((x-grab-keyboard) (message "Keyboard grabbed on second try.") t) (t (beep) (message "WARNING: keyboard is insecure (unable to grab!)") (sleep-for 3) nil))))) (defun passwd-ungrab-keyboard () (if (and (fboundp 'x-ungrab-keyboard) ; lemacs 19.10+ (eq 'x (live-screen-p (selected-screen)))) (x-ungrab-keyboard))) ;; v18 compatibility (or (fboundp 'buffer-disable-undo) (fset 'buffer-disable-undo 'buffer-flush-undo)) ;;; passwd.el ends here