being forced to debug missing prompt

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / security / password_functions.sh

diff --git a/scripts/security/password_functions.sh b/scripts/security/password_functions.sh
index 08409311b94dd4484ade65a43fd2d46da5c29403..637e352d9922b438d34f25206332e70bf8c075a9 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/security/password_functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/security/password_functions.sh
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ function load_password()
     echo 'The load_password function needs a filename to read the password from.'
     return 1
   fi
+  if [ ! -f "$passfile" ]; then
+    # no file, which is not an error necessarily, but return a blank password
+    # in any case.
+    return 0
+  fi
   local passwd
   read passwd < "$passfile"
   echo "$passwd"
@@ -57,6 +62,7 @@ function read_password()
 {
   prompt="$1"; shift
   echo -n "$prompt "
+#  sync
   # turn off echo but remember former setting.
   stty_orig=`stty -g`
   stty -echo